Many other marble sculpture fragments of the Parthenon frieze are currently in the Athens Acropolis Museum, which opened its doors in 2009. Professor Nikolaos Stampolidis, director-general of the ...

The leading Greek filmmaker and director, Yorgos Lanthimos, has been denied permission to shoot some scenes for his ...

The Elgin Marbles, originally part of Parthenon and Acropolis of Athens. On display in the British Museum in Duveen Gallery. East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media.

In a historic agreement, 76 Greek Jewish artifacts will return to the Jewish Museum of Greece from Poland’s Jewish Historical ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic ... even when appealed. The Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are a frieze of sculptures that once adorned ...

"Positive" talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles have rekindled hope that the ancient friezes could be on their way back to Athens after more than two centuries.

A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens is a temple built in the fifth century BC in homage to the goddess Athena. The new Acropolis Museum, inaugurated in 2009 ...

When the former New York Times Paris bureau chief first set out to write a book about the most famous and largest museum in ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

Travel experts surveyed tourism workers and locals in Italy, France, Spain and Greece to find out their opinions of American ...