The Elgin Marbles – and the debate over which country ... were brought to Britain in the 19th Century by British ambassador Lord Elgin. He removed them from the Parthenon on the Acropolis ...

Stories in StoneDefenders of Lord Elgin argue that the removal of the marbles ensured their preservation. His critics point out that British attitudes to conservation were not always historically ...

E ver since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off and crowbarred many of the carvings ...

Charles Byrne, born in 1762, standing at approximately 7 feet, 5 inches tall was hailed as the tallest man in the world. He ...

Elizabeth Marlowe, founder of the Museum Studies Program at Colgate University, gave a lecture on decolonizing museums ...

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis has again called for the return of the Elgin Marbles, saying that having ... to the UK by British diplomat Lord Elgin in the early 19th Century.

Dramadocumentary in which art critic Andrew GrahamDixon tells the story of the greatest cultural controversy of the last 200 years He explores the history of the Elgin Marbles tells the dramatic ...