With artefacts on loan from the British Museum, this modest show reminds us of the astonishing heritage of a country now ...

Greece and the British Museum are “still some distance” from ... The marble statues came from friezes on the 2,500-year-old Parthenon temple, and have been displayed at the museum for more ...

Greece has campaigned for decades for the marbles to be returned. The British Museum is banned by law from giving the sculptures back to Greece, but its leaders have held talks with Greek ...

It also shows that in Greece, 222 years after the sculptures were removed from the Parthenon and placed in the British Museum, even the younger generations of Greeks have not forgotten and are asking ...

The British Museum showed 'zero respect' by hosting ... The sculptures were taken from the Parthenon temple at the Acropolis in Greece in the early 19th century by British diplomat Thomas Bruce ...

Greece says they were stolen, but the British Museum rejects that and says they were legally obtained. Talks between Greece and the museum have been going on since 2021. Prof Stamatoudi ...

Kyriakos Mitsotakis told the BBC on Sunday he wanted the artefacts - also known as the Elgin Marbles - returned from the British Museum to Greece. The meeting was scrapped on Monday at late notice.

Greece has campaigned for decades for the marbles to be returned. The British Museum is banned by law from giving the sculptures back to Greece, but its leaders have held talks with Greek ...

British Museum. Department of Greek and Roman Antiquities. "Preface to the sixth edition" signed: H. B. Walters.

You will visit The Parthenon sculptures in the Greek galleries, once part of the Parthenon temple. They date back to 447 – 438 BC. Other artefacts that you will see include The Lewis Chessmen and the ...