Parthenon Marbles

Caryatids,  the famous 2,500-year-old Greek statues located at the Acropolis Museum in Athens have just gotten a facelift. The black grime that encrusted the marble maidens has been stripped away using a specially designed laser system. At the start of...

An innovative demonstration in the form of a performance took place at the British Museum the previous weekend, entertaining many visitors who happened to be there. The internationally famous soprano Sonia Theodoridou together with six more Greek women entered...

The president of the Swiss Committee for the Return of the Parthenon Marbles, Professor Dusan Sidjanski, during the event titled “Europe and the Parthenon Marbles: a common cause,” stressed the need for return of the marbles to Greece. In his...

Although Melina Mercouri died twenty years ago, on March 6, 1994, her memory remains very much alive in Greek hearts. Mercouri loved her country and was an ambassador of the Greek spirit worldwide. She was a much loved actress...

The director of London’s National Gallery, Nicholas Penny, is challenging Greece once more on the issue of the Parthenon’s Marbles, suggesting that Greece and Britain share them. According to him, the British Museum has recognized to some extent, the profound...

Not since the late actress and Culture Minister Melina Mercouri; the eloquent writer and unbeatable debater Christopher Hitchens and his friend, Scottish Prof. Robert Browning - also dead - has Greece had, in actor-director-activist George Clooney, such an ambassador...

George Clooney, whose statement on the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece has caused intense reactions in Britain, came back on the subject and released a statement arguing that he strongly believes in the things he said, while...

A recent voting conducted by the British newspaper "The Guardian" showed that 88% of the respondents believes that Britain should return the Parthenon marbles to Greece, while only 12% disagree with their return. The voting was launched after George Clooney’s statements supporting...

After George Clooney’s statements advocating the return of Parthenon marbles to Greece on Wednesday, February 12, the British newspaper “The Guardian” started an online voting about whether the Parthenon marbles should return to the country of their origin. The voting...

A feature film that centers on a fictional story about the return of the Parthenon Marbles has just released its first trailer. "Promakhos" is a drama about two Athenian attorneys who pursue litigation for the return of the Parthenon Marbles....