In the late 18th and early 19th century, Westerners were involved in extensive looting of Greek antiquities as the nation was ...

British pop music icon Robbie Williams has added his voice to the ongoing debate over the Parthenon Marbles, strongly ...

The Acropolis Museum, which also houses the Parthenon Marbles, has been one of the most visited museums across the globe for ...

The Western Range makes up one third of the museum’s footprint and is home to the collections from ancient Egypt, Greece, and ...

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...

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.

For decades, Greek authorities have been arguing for the permanent return of the so-called Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles. These include about half of the surviving fragments of ...

Elgin claimed permission to take them, though no evidence supports this, and the marble landed at the British Museum in 1816. Since the 1980s, Greece has contested their ownership, a fight Jenkins ...

is displayed at the Archaeological Museum of Olympia in Ancient Olympia, Greece, on Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis) The head of a griffin, that was repatriated from New York’s ...

Greece’s culture minister ... taken from the Acropolis in Athens in the 19th century and now in the British Museum. The government — citing their cultural importance and illegal removal ...