In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures ...

The British Museum in London currently owns less than half of the 160 meter long frieze of the Parthenon, carved in the 5th century BC. LEON NEAL / AFP For years, the London museum also argued ...

ATHENS, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has cancelled a planned meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis due to a diplomatic row over the status of the 2,500 ...

For his part, Mitsotakis has asked the British Museum to return all of the frieze in its collection, some 250 feet of carved stone that once wrapped around the Parthenon, the person with knowledge ...

The museum, custodian of the “Elgin Marbles” which include about half of the 160-meter (525-foot) frieze that adorned the Parthenon, has always ruled out a permanent return for the sculptures ...

In a way, the Parthenon was a democratic structure: it needed citizen approval to be built and the subject-matter of its frieze included the people of Athens, a true first in Greek monumental ...

They were carved in 447-432 B.C. to adorn the iconic Parthenon, a temple of the city ... while an unbroken strip of relief sculpture — the frieze — depicting a religious procession ran ...

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican Museums to return three Parthenon fragments to Greece ... which include 5th-century B.C. remnants of a 520-foot frieze that once covered the outer walls ...

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 ...

The 2,500-year-old Parthenon in the Greek capital Athens attracts around 7.2 million vistors annually. But for more than two centuries, the site has been… Close ...