What should museums do with antiquities taken during colonial periods? It’s the question at the heart of a fracture between the Greek and British governments. For over 40 years, the Greek government ...

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and Law. I ...

An Oxford scholar has come up with a clever way to solve the ongoing dispute over the Parthenon Marbles that would leave everyone happy. Roger Michel, who runs a team at the Institute for Digital ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Bloomberg) -- The British Museum and the Acropolis Museum in Athens are closing in on an agreement that would see the Parthenon ...

Two of my major obsessions—punctuation and Greek—came together recently, when President Xi Jinping, of China, voiced his support for the return to Greece of the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the ...

Visitors admiring the Parthenon Frieze at the Acropolis Museum in Athens may notice plaster casts on view in place of the marble originals that once wrapped around the ancient Greek temple. Many of ...

But Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who says the UK is "cornered," plans to insist on the marbles’ return during a visit this year. In an action at the museum this weekend, participants made ...

Ever since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off and crowbarred many of the carvings that ringed the top of the Parthenon and sold them to the British Museum to ...

Sculptures which form part of the "Elgin Marbles", taken from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece almost two hundred years ago by the British aristocrat, the Earl of Elgin, are on display January 21, 2002 ...

Experts said the fragment, recovered by divers from the Greek culture ministry, matched the style and dimensions of the Parthenon, but that it was too soon to be certain of its provenance. By Isabella ...