Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles ... the Vatican Museums returned three pieces of the Parthenon's frieze, metopes decorative band and pediments.

frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of the British Museum in London. Greece wants them returned to Athens after they were ...

In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens ... that wound up in the British Museum—but in a greatly reduced ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic ... such as the museum's most contested holding, the Parthenon Marbles. Dr. Tiffany Jenkins, a broadcaster and sociologist ...

These include about half of the surviving fragments of a 160-meter-long (520-foot) frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of the ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken from their country of origin in colonial contexts, such as the museum’s most ...