British Museum

On October 6 in Athens the International Conference of committees will be held, which is a very important moment for the effort to return the Parthenon Marbles. After the meeting of the Greek Minister of Culture and Sports with the...

Bendigo Art Gallery will host another major yet rare international exhibition on Ancient Greece. A collection of 100 pieces from The Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece exhibition from the internationally renowned British Museum will open in Bendigo in 2014 and...

The Greek community of Australia is keeping alive the issue of the return of the Parthenon Marbles, stolen property housed in the British Museum, which refuses to give them back and claims they belong now to England. Minister of Energy...

The Cultural Organization of Prespes, the Melina Mercouri Foundation and ADaM Productions of Badminton Theater are presenting the performance, Melina - Wherever I Travel To, Greece, on Aug. 23-24 a tribute to the late actress and former Culture Minister...

The British newspaper The Sunday Times places the Acropolis Museum third in a list of the best 50 museums of the world, despite some criticism when it opened about its cement facade. “The Acropolis Museum, a shiny new home for...

Fifteen-year-old students of the 2nd High School of Corinth accompanied by three teachers traveled to London and gave their own message of the Parthenon Marbles waving four Greek flags and shouting the slogan: BRING THEM BACK! The students delivered 36...

Milennia after he conquered the then-known world, Alexander the Great's legacy is still being debated and now an academic from Newcastle University, in a lecture at the British Museum, said the the great Greek was bisexual, a notion that...

Disputing an announcement it was ready to discuss return of some of the marble pieces and friezes stolen from the Parthenon 200 years ago by a British diplomat, officials of the British Museum said they would consider loaning them...

Athens Acropolis Museum Director Demetrios Pantermalis said on Aug. 23 that Greece is going to open talks with officials of the British Museum, asking for the return of some pieces of the Parthenon that were stolen by a...

In a debate hosted by Intelligence Squared in London, the motion made by actor Stephen Fry to return the Elgin Marbles to Athens won by a vote of 384 to 125. Intelligence Squared is a London-based forum which organizes...