A letter, exclusively obtained by Sky News, suggests legal action could be taken to prevent the UK government and British ...

A letter calls on the UK government and the British Museum to stop future talks for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to ...

In early December 2024, newspaper reports suggested that the dispute surrounding the fate of the so-called Elgin Marbles may ...

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The Elgin Marbles, taken from the Parthenon, are at the center of this political rift Greece's prime minister cut a U.K. visit short after an apparent snub by his U.K. counterpart over the Elgin ...

Elgin Marbles loan reopens ancient wounds 01:56. London — The U.K. government has cancelled a meeting between Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and his Greek counterpart amid a diplomatic row over ...

In any case, Elgin had the 5th-century B.C. marbles torn down from the Parthenon and shipped to Britain, where he intended to display them privately in his home.

The Elgin Marbles were created between 447 and 432 B.C. as architectural decor for the Parthenon—the temple of the Greek goddess Athena—on the Acropolis in Athens.

By the time Elgin’s men arrived, the Parthenon had been occupied, desecrated and burned. Over the centuries, it was looted by conquering Roman generals, seized by Alaric the Goth and blown up by ...

In 1983, the Greek government officially asked the UK Government to return the Elgin Marbles to Greece and went on to list the dispute with Unesco (United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

“Cutting the Mona Lisa in half”. “Removing the Eiffel Tower from Paris”. “Removing Stonehenge from Salisbury”. These are just some of the ways in which the removal of the Parthenon Marbles, also known ...