Parthenon

Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg, the chairman and chief executive officer of Facebook, marked his wedding anniversary on Friday with a trip to Greece. Together with Priscilla Chan, his wife of seven years, Zuckerberg posed in front of the Parthenon, atop the...

The Greek Central Archaeological Council (KAS) decided on Wednesday that a part of the Parthenon, now in ruins on the Athens Acropolis, is to be rebuilt using mostly materials which are now lying on the ground. It is believed to be...

Dimitris Pantermalis, a professor and the curator of the Acropolis Museum, debunked on Monday claims that the Earl of Elgin had obtained permission from the Ottoman Sultan to transport the Parthenon Marbles from Athens to London. Speaking at the international...

Dame Janet Suzman, actress and chair of the British Committee for the reunification of the Parthenon marbles wrote an article on Saturday in Greece's TA NEA newspaper, with which she tried to answer to the director of the British...

It has been over 200 years since Greece was robbed of its famous marble Parthenon sculptures, known around the world as the so-called “Elgin Marbles” and in an interview published by Greece’s Ta Nea newspaper on Saturday, the director...

Following the discussion of a draft resolution brought to the United Nation's General Assembly by Greece, the body adopted without a vote a resolution for the ''return or restitution of cultural property to the countries of origin'' on December...

The restoration of the Parthenon, the global symbol of Western Democracy and civilization as well as Greece's most famous monument is not something new. It dates decades back, from the very beginning of the newly established Greek state in...

British historian Nigel Konstam has published a booklet arguing that many of the works stolen from the Parthenon by Lord Elgin in the 1800s are in fact Roman reproductions of the Greek originals. His theory is based on the recent...

Two Argentinian TV show hosts went on Acropolis and shot offensive footage in front of the Parthenon without permission from the Central Archaeological Council (CAS). According to an Antenna television report, the video from the Acropolis Hill and other footage...

Greece's Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras made an appeal for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece during a meeting on Tuesday with his U.K. counterpart Theresa May in Downing Street. Speaking to reporters, Tsipras said he raised the issue...