All humans, either willingly or unwillingly, love perfect proportions. Centuries before Photoshop or fitness influencers, the quest for the "ideal" body and perfect proportions reached a major milestone in Ancient Greece. While his peers were trying to capture the...
You may have walked through the antiquity wing of a museum and noticed a surprisingly consistent pattern. Almost all archaic Greek statues share the same pose, standing straight up like a board with their gaze fixed directly ahead and...
The cultural obsession with six-pack abdominal muscles shows no signs of abating. And if research into male body image is to be believed, it will likely only grow, thanks to social media.
By Conor Heffernan
Today, there’s an entire industry centered...
In the last months, we have been regularly reminded that secret talks have been taking place between the Greek government and the British Museum over the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece.
By Catharine Titi
As soon the discussions became...
The Parthenon Marbles could be returned temporarily to Greece in exchange for ancient artifacts that have never been seen in the UK before, chairman of the British Museum trustees George Osborne has said.
Responding to Greek requests for their return,...
Ben Bradshaw, a former UK Secretary of Culture, has backed a campaign for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Athens, Greece.
The Classical Greek marble sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, have been housed in the British Museum...
British PM Boris Johnson told visiting Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis on Tuesday that the British Museum alone is responsible for dealing with Greece's request for the return of the Parthenon Marbles.
“The Prime Minister said that he understood the strength...
