The Greek government has long argued they ... and the world comes to the UK to see them. The collection of the British Museum is protected by law, and we have no plans to change it." ...

Not surprisingly, the British Museum has so far refused all requests to give up one of its most popular exhibits. The Parthenon marbles have become the most visible, and notorious, collection of ...

Not long after the multi-million best-selling novelist Victoria Hislop finished her latest book, The Figurine, the murky ...

They currently sit in the collection of the British Museum in London. Greece wants them returned to Athens after they were taken from the Acropolis around 200 years ago. Former UK prime ministers ...

The Keighley Cliffe Castle display will contain objects from the British Museum, the council says ... made in talks to lend the antiquities to Greece. The sculptures offer a unique insight ...

which occupied Greece then. Elgin claimed an Ottoman leader granted permission for their extraction, and the British Museum ultimately acquired the sculptures in 1816. Disputes over their rightful ...