The New Acropolis Museum will display some of the remaining original frieze along with plaster replicas of the Elgin Marbles. In a design masterstroke, the glass-enclosed top floor is turned at a ...

taken to England by Lord Elgin in 1806. The remaining five caryatids, which supported the portico of the temple, are held in the Acropolis Museum of Athens. Photograph by British Museum/Scala ...

The neglected marble quarries of Paros which centuries ago produced most of the sculptural masterpieces of ancient Greece are ...

Known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles ... on display at the Acropolis Museum. A year earlier, the Antonino Salinas Museum in Palermo sent Greece another Parthenon marble fragment.

given an interview to Greek media defending the British Museum’s ownership of a collection of sculptures that Lord Elgin’s team of artists and artisans had taken from the Athenian Acropolis in ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

Elgin's staff began removing the antiquities from the Acropolis in 1801 ... of returning several Parthenon marble fragments. The three pieces in the Vatican Museum's collection have been there ...