Lord Elgin claimed to hold documents from the Ottoman Empire – then occupying Athens – which allowed him to remove he sculptures, but this has been disputed by the Greek Government.

In 1983, the Greek government officially asked the UK Government to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece and went on to list the dispute with Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

Few cultural disputes inflame British passions more than the disposition of the Parthenon Marbles. Public debate about the statuary has raged since the early 1800s, when the sculptures and bas ...

The Elgin Marbles were created between 447 and 432 B.C. as architectural decor for the Parthenon—the temple of the Greek goddess Athena—on the Acropolis in Athens.

BRITAIN is close to signing away the Elgin Marbles, Greek officials confirmed yesterday. No10 said Sir Keir Starmer would not stand in the way of the British Museum shipping the sculptures back to … ...

Visit the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum’s Duveen Gallery and you will be transported back to the mythic majesty of the Athenian Acropolis in the fifth century BC. Sculpted in the age of ...

The diplomatic row over the ancient sculptures has intensified, after Rishi Sunak cancelled a meeting with the Greek prime minister at short notice ...

He is best known as the Scot who brought ancient stone sculptures from Greece to the Britian, ensuring a diplomatic row which would echo down the centuries. But Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin ...

“Cutting the Mona Lisa in half”. “Removing the Eiffel Tower from Paris”. “Removing Stonehenge from Salisbury”. These are just some of the ways in which the removal of the Parthenon Marbles, also known ...

“Cutting the Mona Lisa in half”. “Removing the Eiffel Tower from Paris”. “Removing Stonehenge from Salisbury”. These are just some of the ways in which the removal of the Parthenon Marbles, also known ...