LONDON — A planned meeting between the British and Greek prime ministers this week was a casualty of one of the world’s longest-running disputes: what to do with the 2,500-year-old Parthenon ...

LONDON — Over the years, many have tried to persuade the British Museum to return the Elgin marbles to Greece. But Roger Michel has something the others didn’t: A life-size head of a horse ...

The British Museum could be on the cusp of agreeing a historic deal to return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece. Its chairman, George Osborne, is about to meet the museum’s trustees to thrash out some ...

As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return.

In 1801, Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, took the Parthenon Marbles (also known as the Elgin Marbles) from Athens to England. Fifteen years later, he sold them to the British Museum, where they ...

From Elgin Marbles to Moai heads: What artefacts have the British Museum been urged to return? The Parthenon Sculptures, Rosetta Stone and Benin Bronzes are just some of the ‘contested objects ...

UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s last-minute cancellation of a meeting with his Greek counterpart Kyriakos Mitsotakis in London has brought renewed attention to the centuries-old dispute over the ...

The British Museum and Greece’s prime minister are getting closer to a deal on returning the so-called Elgin Marbles to Athens. But key differences remain. By Alex Marshall Alex Marshall, who is ...

British Museum's Elgin Marbles fashion show leaves Greeks feeling shirty as culture minister accuses bosses of showing 'zero respect' amid row over the contested ancient sculptures.

LONDON—In a small windowless room in the basement of the British Museum sit some of the holiest relics of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church: 11 small wooden plaques called Tabots that are considered ...

The Elgin Marbles were legally acquired by the British Museum through an Act of Parliament in 1816, after the British government purchased them from Lord Elgin, the British Ambassador to the ...