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 ...

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.

A British organization wants to carve Parthenon Marbles replicas into Mount Pentelicus so Greece can become home to its own ...

A team of researchers from the British Museum, led by Diego Tamburini, recently examined the tablet fragments using advanced ...

Greece welcomed the repatriation of three ancient sculpture fragments from the Parthenon—a horse and two male ...

The British Museum's impending reconstruction is seen ... seen not only as a bilateral issue between the United Kingdom and Greece but as a matter of international cultural significance.

London’s British Museum is set to return a looted ancient Greek statue of the goddess Persephone to Libya which is estimated to be worth £1.5m. According to Al-Wasat newspaper, Mohammed al ...

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 ...