Parthenon Marbles

“We are exploring whether we can arrange for some of the sculptures to be in Athens at some point, where they were originally located. In return, Greece would lend us some of its archaeological treasures,” Osborne notes in the interview.

Greece appears to be inching closer to the resolution of a decades-long dispute with the British Museum for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to their home of origin.

Mitsotakis and Starmer discussed trade, migration, and global conflicts in their brief meeting.

Regarding Greece's longstanding request for the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles, government sources emphasize that this matter is primarily being discussed with the British Museum.

The results of the YouGov poll show 53% in favor of the prospect, out of a total sample of 4,280 respondents

Greece and the British Museum have held several private meetings in the hopes of striking a deal over the return of the Parthenon Marbles to Greece according to reports at Sky News.

The discussion about the Parthenon Marbles remains a longstanding request for Greece addressed not only to the British government, but also to the British Museum.

Greece has argued for almost two hundred years that the collection of marbles should be returned to Athens, and the British Museum has maintained they belong in their collections.

PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis and PM Keir Starmer will meet next week in London and, according to the Financial Times, Starmer will support whatever deal is made between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles.

The Economist informs its readers of a notable shift in British public opinion on the matter, with 49% in favor of returning the Marbles, against only 15% opposing it, according to a 2023 YouGov poll.

A new piece in the Times adds its weight to a cascade of reports in the British press claiming an agreement on the Parthenon Marbles is increasingly likely

The first episode of the Australian TV series, which focuses on the artifacts the British Empire has illegally removed throughout its reign from countries from around the world, covered the Parthenon Marbles

The protesters unfurled a huge banner reading “Reunite the Marbles!” in front of the statues of the eastern pediment

Britain's Foreign Secretary Foreign Secretary David Cameron claims ignorance of what was said at the UNESCO meeting about the Parthenon Marbles and opts to mock the President of the British Museum

TO VIMA talks to the Turkish official, Zeynep Boz, who surprised the world at the recent UNESCO meeting by supporting Greece and its plight to get back the Parthenon marbles from the British museum

"We are closer to the reunification of the Parthenon Marbles," former British Secretary of State for Culture, Ben Bradshaw, tells TA NEA

Turkey's representative at UNESCO said her country was not aware of any Ottoman-era document legitimizing the removal and sale of the Parthenon Sculptures to Lord Elgin.

The director of the Acropolis Museum Nikos Stampolidis said the perfect space to host the Marbles is the Acropolis Museum

The report from artnet.com notes that the Parthenon Marbles, along with Assyrian and Roman artifacts, are housed in an antiquated room on the verge of crumbling, with leaky roofs, peeling paint from the walls, problematic climate control, and cracked floor tiles

On-location shooting for a new documentary focusing on Lady Elgin, the woman who ostensibly financed the early-18th century pilfering of many of the Parthenon’s friezes, begins next May. Respectfully called the “Parthenon Marbles” today and displayed at the British Museum in London, the artifacts were known for more than a century and a half as […]