Elgin Marbles, Greece and Parthenon

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 ...
Britain's Attorney General said Britain could reclaim the Ionian Islands from Greece if Athens wants the return of the ...
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 ...
A YouGov poll indicates that over half of Britons (53 percent) support the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece.
Downing Street says it won’t change the law to permit “permanent” move of ancient sculptures from the British Museum.
Will the new Labour government help Greece secure the return of the Parthenon marbles, held at the British Museum since 1816?
“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 ...