Parthenon Marbles

Greece thanked Pope Francis for the return of the Parthenon fragments during a visit to the Vatican by Culture Minister Lina Mendoni on Monday. The meeting follows the reunification ceremony which took place on last Friday in Athens, which saw...

A fundraising initiative for the Parthenon Marbles was launched to raise £35,000 ($43 K) to symbolically repay the UK Parliament for the money it paid Lord Elgin to buy the Marbles. The symbolic initiative by the British Committee for the...

UK's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has vowed to protect the Parthenon Marbles from being sent back to Greece, saying they remain a “huge asset” to the UK, the Guardian reports on Monday. Despite a campaign to return the marble sculptures...

The Vatican and Greece are finalizing a deal for the return of three Parthenon marbles that have been in the collection of the Vatican Museums for two centuries. The fragments are expected to arrive in Athens later this month, with...

The Financial Times (FT) reported on Friday the secret meetings on the Parthenon Marbles between Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and George Osborne, chair of the British Museum. In an extensive report, the British paper says that the two meetings between...

Achieving an agreement for the permanent return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece by the British Museum "is difficult, but not impossible," said Culture and Sports Minister Lina Mendoni in Parliament on Monday. Responding to a parliamentary question calling on...

The UK dashed hopes for a return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece on Wednesday after Michelle Donelan, Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, said that the sculptures "belong here in the UK" and should not...

Greece insisted on Monday that Britain permanently return the Parthenon Marbles that have been in British possession for two centuries, adding that negotiations about their fate were "not easy." "The objective is their definitive return," government spokesman Yiannis Oikonomou said...

Greece officially responded to press reports that a deal on the Parthenon Marbles with the UK is being finalized by implying that such a deal would only materialize if the British Museum acknowledges that the sculptures belong to Greece. In...

The Greek Culture & Sports Ministry declined to confirm reports that the British Museum and the Acropolis Museum are nearing an agreement on the gradual return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece. Bloomberg and the Daily Telegraph reported on Tuesday...