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." ...

The museum in central London, which attracts almost 6 million visitors a year, closed its temporary exhibitions and part of its permanent collection ... by British diplomat Lord Elgin. Greece ...

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 ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display ... of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at a recent ...

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 ...