This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. During the 1700s, a European Grand Tour was a rite of passage for the sons of wealthy families. Lasting ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display ...

The Acropolis is a massive archaeological site brimming with the artistic monuments and wonders of ancient Greece. Here are ...

Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis in Athens by an avaricious British aristocrat and relocated to the British Museum, where they ...