Not even a day has passed since the President of the British Museum (by the way, the world’s largest collection of stolen art) hinted at the possibility of returning the Parthenon sculptures to Greece. As voices grow stronger in England in favor of the return of the sculptures to their historical homeland, the rhetoric of […]
Greece and United Kingdom agreed start official negotiations on the possible return of the Parthenon marbles to their country of origin, UNESCO said on Tuesday. On the eve of International Museum Day, celebrated on May 18, UNESCO unexpectedly announced that Greece and the UK had finally agreed to hold official negotiations on the possible return […]
A sensational investigation by two Turkish scientists refutes the British argument that Lord Elgin received a firman (decree) from the Turkish Sultan in order to smuggle the Parthenon Marbles out of Greece. And a copy of the document, according to their study, issued for firmanis a forgery, probably concocted by Elgin’s private secretary. The scandalous […]
Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Minister of Culture Lina Mendoni, Director of the Acropolis Museum Nikos Stambolidis and President of the Acropolis Museum Dimitris Pantermalis took part in the ceremony to place the Fagana fragment in its place on the frieze of the Parthenon at the Acropolis Museum on Monday. The symbolic and practical gesture made […]
On Saturday, the new director of the British Museum offered to return the stolen Parthenon marble sculptures to Greece only as a short-term loan. In an article in The Times, director George Osborne, a former Treasury secretary under the conservative Cameron, wrote primarily convinced that the marble statues had not been stolen. “We are open […]