Parthenon Marbles
Ancient Greece
Sweden Returns Stolen Ancient Sealing Ring to Greece
Sweden has returned a gold sealing ring from Mycenaean times, depicting a pair of sphinxes, to Greece, thereby piling on the pressure on the UK and British Museum to return the Parthenon Marbles.
The handover by the Nobel Foundation took...
Ancient Greece
Greece, UK Agree to Hold Formal Talks on the Parthenon Marbles
Greece and the UK have agreed to hold talks on the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, UNESCO announced.
A report from the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee for Promoting the Return of Cultural Property to its Countries of Origin or...
Ancient Greece
Stephen Fry’s Ground-Breaking Proposal for the Parthenon Marbles
British actor and longtime activist Stephen Fry has a new idea for the return of the Parthenon Marbles which has quite a unique twist, one that uses virtual reality to allow visitors to see them reunited together in Athens...
Ancient Greece
British Museum Faces Legal Action Over 3D Scan of Parthenon Marbles
The British Museum is facing legal action after refusing to allow the Institute for Digital Archaeology (IDA) to take 3D scans of the Parthenon Marbles.
The IDA, one of the UK's top organizations for heritage preservation, announced on Wednesday that...
Ancient Greece
Parthenon Marbles in the British Museum “Secretly Scanned”
The Parthenon Marbles at the British Museum have been secretly scanned by digital archaeologists with the hope of creating "perfect" replicas that could one day lead to the repatriation of the originals to Greece, a report in the Daily...
Archaeology
The Parthenon Marbles “Belong in Greece”, The Guardian Says
The return of the Parthenon Marbles from the British Museum to Greece is a recurring subject in the past few years
Ancient Greece
The Parthenon Marbles Should Return to Athens, The Times Says
The Parthenon Marbles belong to Athens and they should now return, The Times of London, Britain's leading newspaper, says in its main editorial on Wednesday.
It is a spectacular u-turn for the Times which admits that for decades it had resisted...
Ancient Greece
Parthenon Marbles Fragment Returns Home to the Acropolis Museum
A fragment of the Parthenon Marbles which returned from Italy to its home at the Acropolis Museum on Monday was welcomed in a special ceremony attended by PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis.
The symbolic and practical gesture made by the autonomous region...
Ancient Greece
Italy Returns Parthenon Marbles Fragment to Greece in Nudge to UK
Italy is returning a fragment of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece, authorities in Greece and Italy said on Wednesday in a move that adds new pressure on the British Museum to send its own pieces of the works back...
Ancient Greece
Greece Reunites Parthenon Marbles, Piling Pressure on Britain
Greece reunited fragments of the Parthenon Marbles exhibited at the Athens Archaeological Museum to the Acropolis Museum on Monday in a highly symbolic gesture, highlighting the Greek demand for the unification of the artifacts.
The handover ceremony at the Acropolis...