Athens says they were removed illegally and wants them returned so they can be displayed alongside the rest of the Parthenon sculptures at a purpose-built museum in Athens. Relations between ...
"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles have rekindled hope that the ancient ...
Discussions between Greece and the British Museum about the fate of the Parthenon Marbles are gaining momentum, with Greek ...
The head of the British Museum, George Osborne, said Wednesday a reported deal with Greece to end a decades-long dispute over ...
Secret discussions have taken place between George Osborne, the chair of the British Museum, and Greece's prime minister ...
Will the new Labour government help Greece secure the return of the Parthenon marbles, held at the British Museum since 1816?
Athens says they were removed illegally and wants them returned so they can be displayed alongside the rest of the Parthenon sculptures at a purpose-built museum in Athens. Relations between ...
Greece’s prime minister is in London on for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested ...
On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...
Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...
The British Museum notes that smaller Parthenon frieze collections and fragments are also in the Louvre and museums in Copenhagen, Munich, Vienna and Wurzburg. Athens has for decades demanded the ...
So the Parthenon was an attempt on the part of Pericles and Athens to assert the city's cultural, political, and military dominance over the rest of Greece and the Aegean. Pericles called Athens ...