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

With the 200th anniversary this week of the July 11, 1816 purchase through an Act of Parliament of the Parthenon Marbles for the British Museum, members of parliament (MPs) are introducing a bill that ...

Greece Parthenon restoration: Athens' iconic Parthenon has regained a significant piece of its history with the completion of ...

An academic has been barred from a leading Greek museum for backing Britain in the Elgin Marbles debate. Dr Mario Trabucco della Torretta, an archaeologist, was scheduled to make an after-dinner ...

In A.E. Stallings’s Frieze Frame, the poet retells the many conflicts, political and cultural, the ransacked portion of the Parthenon has inspired. Sir William Gell’s The Removal of the Sculptures ...

I am a classical archaeologist who has devoted many years to studying Greece and ancient Greek culture. I also lived in Athens for four years, enjoying the warmth of both its weather and its people.