In 1801 a British nobleman stripped the Parthenon of many of its sculptures and took them to England. Controversy over their ...

Twenty-five years ago, in the preface to the 1997 edition of his book The Parthenon Marbles, Christopher Hitchens observed that “those who support the status quo at the British Museum have the great ...

Childhood secrets are hiding in the dirt. Months after crops are harvested and fields stripped to bare brown, the slanted rays of morning or evening sunlight fire large circular patterns of crushed ...

It’s hard not to be awestruck standing in front of the Parthenon marbles. The collection of sculptures adorned the famous archeological site, which was originally built as a temple to Athena in ...

There may have been some questions in the past but I’d like to put those aside. I have not “lost all my marbles.” As a matter of fact, during the transition from Stately Willard Manor to Stately ...

If you've held onto old marbles from childhood or stumbled across a dusty jar in the attic, you might be wondering if they're worth anything. Not all old marbles have high value, but certain handmade, ...

It seems the whole world has gone a little crazy these days. Here in this country, we've had these afflictions before — the Civil War, the McCarthy era and Vietnam were all trying times. Of course, ...