South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

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

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' ...

Born about 600 BCE in what is now southwestern Iran, Cyrus “the Great” is considered the founder of the Persian Achaemenid empire. He is remembered as “the Great” to distinguish him from his ...

There is an ancient temple in Greece that is almost intact, standing at the top of the hill of Agoraios Colonos next to the ...

Home to some of the world’s most extraordinary artifacts, from the Rosetta Stone to the Elgin Marbles, the British Museum is ...

Some of the oldest ancient temples continue to fulfil their original purpose after thousands of years, continuing their ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...

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

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

Ancient Greek and Roman statues didn't originally look like they do now in museums. A new study says they didn't smell the ...

The Byzantine Museum in Nicosia ... Cyprus gained independence from British rule in 1960, but Greek-Turkish Cypriot tensions led to violence, with Turkey intervening in 1974 after a Greek-backed ...