Lord Elgin didn’t want to lose any more Parthenon marbles. The ancient temple atop the Athenian acropolis had already been through an ordeal: marred by a 3rd century AD fire, damaged when the temple ...

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Some of the most famous statues in the world are now revealing their true colors. The Elgin Marbles, a collection of ancient Greek sculptures, were not originally white, as they appear now. When they ...

A new analysis of Lord Elgin’s original casts of the Parthenon marbles has revealed details effaced by Victorian vandals—and air pollution—following the classical sculptures’ removal from Greece in ...

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Sculptures which form part of the "Elgin Marbles", taken from the Parthenon in Athens, Greece almost two hundred years ago by the British aristocrat, the Earl of Elgin, are on display January 21, 2002 ...

Pope Francis has decided to return three 2,500-year-old pieces of the Parthenon to Greece. Dating to the fifth century B.C.E., the sculpture fragments depict the head of a boy, a horse head and the ...

VOLOS, Greece (AP) — Greece's prime minister says his government is exploring a “win-win” solution to one of the world’s most intractable cultural heritage disputes: The fate of the Parthenon ...