Elgin Marbles, British Museum and Greece

Britain's Attorney General said Britain could reclaim the Ionian Islands from Greece if Athens wants the return of the ...
Downing Street says it won’t change the law to permit “permanent” move of ancient sculptures from the British Museum.
UK law prevents the British Museum from permanently returning the sculptures to Greece. Talks are reportedly underway about a ...
Greece’s prime minister is in London on for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested ...
Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...
The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines, who promptly enacted a series of decrees outlawing pagan worship. The Byzantines converted the ...
This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly ... The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...