It so happens that Fischer had, a couple of years earlier, given an interview to Greek media defending the British Museum’s ownership of a collection of sculptures that Lord Elgin’s team of ...
the Elgin Marbles, as they've long been known, are famous less as art objects than as objects of political controversy. For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum ...
A centaur and a Lapith struggling in a scene from the Elgin marbles. Photo ... from various European countries—Germans, French, British—who all went to the northwestern deserts, the Taklimakan ...
The return of the Elgin Marbles has been discussed in what ... had up to three "private meetings" with trustees of the British Museum and chair George Osborne about returning the Parthenon ...
The Parthenon Marbles have not budged from the literal and figurative centre of the British Museum in London since they were purchased from Lord Elgin in 1816. The sculptures—about half of the ...
The British Museum has come under pressure after it ... often still known as the Elgin Marbles, are the most high profile example in this contested debate. They were removed by the diplomat ...
A major new campaign to return the Elgin marbles to Greece is being launched ... which has been housed in the British Museum for the last 200 years, returned to Athens. The group wants to see ...
It's a trophy of empire." The Greeks also have their fair share of gripes with the British Museum, mainly revolving around the Elgin Marbles, sculptures from the original Parthenon in Athens.
It doesn’t take much nous to see what’s going on with the Elgin Marbles. After the PM’s affectionate chat with the Greek ...