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You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history and 3D computer modeling. University of Oxford archeologist Juan de Lara ...
The chairman of the British Museum said Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023 the U.K. and Greece are working on a deal that would see the Parthenon Marbles displayed in both London and Athens. The antiquities ...
UPDATE 4 January 2023: On 3 January, the British Museum confirmed in a statement that the organisation is actively negotiating with the Greek government to return the Parthenon marbles. A ...
LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The UK is working on a new arrangement with Greece through which the Parthenon Sculptures could be seen both in London and in Athens, British Museum chair George Osborne ...
The museum could offer up to a third of the Parthenon artifacts in its collection, the person added. Once Greece returned those artifacts to London, more would be sent to Athens to replace them ...
In 1801, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, took the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from Athens to England. Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they ...
In February, the museum’s chair said the talks ... seen some 2,500-year-old marble fragments of the Parthenon Sculptures returned to Athens from European museums. In January, the Vatican Museums ...
In early 19th-century London, the arrival of temple artworks taken from the Acropolis of Athens inspired both poetic raptures ...
The exhibit’s walls detail famous repatriation cases, including the Parthenon’s namesake in Athens, Greece, where politicians continue to call on the British Museum to return ancient ...