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.

When author and artist Noah Angell heard rumors that the British Museum in London was haunted, he set about documenting ghost ...

On May 22, 2025, the government of the United Kingdom signed the much-discussed treaty transferring sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago to Mauritius, which included a lease agreement for the ...

Workmen install the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum, London, May 25th 1949. (Photo by George Konig/Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin ...

The Elgin Marbles were were taken from the Parthenon in Athens by the then British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, Lord Elgin, between 1801 and 1805, and are now on display at the British Museum ...

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 ...

There is no question that the British Museum purchased the collection legally from Lord Elgin, who had acquired it with the full permission of the authorities. Elgin had not at first intended to ...

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Classiness and classicism combined at this afternoon’s Brunello Cucinelli presentation in Milan. Classy touches included a ...