elgin marbles, Greece and Parthenon

UN member states backed on Friday a resolution introduced by Greece to return cultural artifacts to the country of their ...
Greece’s prime minister is in London on for his first top-level U.K. meeting since a spat last year over the contested ...
UK law prevents the British Museum from permanently returning the sculptures to Greece. Talks are reportedly underway about a ...
The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines, who promptly enacted a series of decrees outlawing pagan worship. The Byzantines converted the ...
Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...
“The Parthenon means so much to so many people, both in Greece and in the rest of the world,” he says. “I don’t see it as my task to dictate what others should believe, but rather to offer ...
In the following interview, he also dispels some long-held notions about ancient Greece's most legendary building. NOVA: What is the Parthenon's legacy for western civilization? Jeffrey Hurwit ...