The Parthenon, according to the famous Swiss-French architect, Le Corbusier, represents architecture that is the…
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The movement to return the Parthenon marbles to their motherland was started in the 1980s. But it is not just the Elgin marbles that have been removed from Greece. Some of the most magnificent Greek sculptures ever created are in fact located in various museums around the world, proudly representing the country in which they were born.
A controversial deal that involved fifteen ancient Greek objects from a private Cycladic art collection…
The world-famous cipher has been a must-see object for two centuries – but Egypt wants…
The Parthenon and its sculptures have inspired artists over the centuries. In a just opened…
The legendary American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan crafted a song in the 1960s which became etched…
Does the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, secretly endorse the return of the Parthenon Sculptures…
Much loved British actor, writer and broadcaster Stephen Fry urged Britain to be ‘classy’ and…
Following the recent meeting of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee on the Return of Cultural Property,…
Greece has lashed out at the ludicrous claims made by the British Museum that the…
The reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures may be a step closer with the revelation by…
His entry, “At the British Museum”, a miniature self-portrait of the artist crafted in painstakingly…
Everything you wanted to know about the Parthenon Sculptures .. and are not afraid to…
Digital archaeologists’ have secretly scanned the 2,500-year-old Parthenon Marbles inside the British Museum — with…
Described as an “Ocean’s Eleven minus Brad Pitt meets Dan Brown, Byron and Thucydides”, ‘The Aegean Seven’ is a new historical fiction by Billy Cotsis for those who want to know more about the period in which and how the Parthenon Sculptures were taken. Despite many of the characters being purely fiction, the novel lays out what happened and how it happened on the eve of the Greek Revolution and freedom.
The Times of London are on the side of Greece on the major issue of…
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, the director of Acropolis Museum Nikos Stambolidis…
On the occasion of the return of fragments of the Parthenon to Greece from the Antonino Salinas Regional Archaeological Museum in Sicily, George Vardas gives us a glimpse into its fragmented history…
Just a few days after the transfer of ten Parthenon fragments from the National Archaeological…
A former UK culture minister said that the Parthenon Marbles should be returned to Greece,…