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

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display while returning the originals to Athens.

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

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

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken from their country of origin in colonial contexts, such as the museum's most ...

All remaining original sculptures have now been removed to the climate-controlled Acropolis Museum, their places on the Parthenon taken by exact replicas. Despite all these efforts, the Parthenon ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the ... at the base of the citadel of the Acropolis Museum, which will showcase more than 4,000 ancient statues ...

Meanwhile, Tiffany Jenkins, the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums and Why ...

For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum provoke only one question: should they be in London or in Athens? The Greek government insists they should be in Athens ...

Modeled after the Parthenon in Athens, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is one of the most recognized buildings in Philadelphia. Once you've made it to the top of the "Rocky Stairs," take a breath ...