Not long after the multi-million best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop finished her latest book, The Figurine, the murky ...

Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they have remained ever since. The Greek government has long argued they were illegally taken, and has stated they should be ...

WOKE calls to return British Museum’s Benin Bronzes to Nigeria should be rejected, Sir Trevor Philips says.  The former ...

not just of Greek heritage. 1817: The First Elgin RoomThis 1819 painting by Archibald Archer depicts the exhibition of the marbles in their first, temporary space in the British Museum.

The dispute over the Elgin Marbles have been a long-running diplomatic sore in Britain’s otherwise friendly relationship with ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken from their country of origin in colonial contexts, such as the museum’s most ...

They currently sit in the collection of the British Museum in London. Greece wants them returned to Athens after they were taken from the Acropolis around 200 years ago. Former UK prime ministers ...

The Keighley Cliffe Castle display will contain objects from the British Museum, the council says ... made in talks to lend the antiquities to Greece. The sculptures offer a unique insight ...