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 ...

Meanwhile, Tiffany Jenkins, the author of Keeping Their Marbles: How the Treasures of the Past Ended up in Museums and Why ...

Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis ... museum “it was legitimate” and they were kept very safely. “You give back the Elgin ...

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

Workers are putting the final touches to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in readiness for its opening later this week. The building has been specifically designed to house the Elgin Marbles ...

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 ...

Mr Mitsotakis had compared splitting the Elgin Marbles from those still in Athens to cutting the Mona Lisa in half. The ...