British diplomat Lord Elgin was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which then ruled Greece, in the early 19th century. He oversaw removal and shipping to the UK of the marbles in 170 crates ...
Standing alone in the corner of the British Museum in London is the caryatid – a statue of a female figure separated from five sisters for over 200 years. She is a long way from home, having ...
While Downing Street has insisted its position on the Elginmarbles ‘has not changed’, representatives from Britain and Greece are reportedly moving closer to finding a solution. Talks between ...
Mr Mitsotakis had compared splitting the ElginMarbles from those still in Athens to cutting the Mona Lisa in half. Greece has long maintained that the ElginMarbles were illegally removed ...
Greece has claimed progress has been made in negotiations to return the ElginMarbles to Athens ahead of a crunch meeting its Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis and Sir Keir Starmer at Downing ...