Mary Nisbet, the Countess of Elgin, helped fund the taking of the Parthenon sculptures. Her divorce from Lord Elgin may have contributed to his need to sell them.

Yet Lord Elgin himself initially had no intention of removing the marbles from the Athenian Acropolis, only wishing to document them; it was only after seeing that “Every traveller coming added ...

The following is the latest dispatch received from Lord ELGIN, and is published, with others relating to the affair on the Pei-ho, in the London journals.

Through the London Times came an appeal from Alexandros Philadelphus, onetime "director of the Acropolis and ephorus of the antiquities of Attica," addressed to Great Britain. It read: ...

FRAYER: Apparently because of that legal permission Lord Elgin got from the Ottomans more than 200 years ago. This is a long-running debate, but it turned into a diplomatic spat today.

Lord Elgin insisted he had permission to remove the sculptures from the Ottoman Empire, which controlled Athens at the time. But the original letter giving him permission has been lost and the ...

British diplomat Lord Elgin was the ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, which then ruled Greece, in the early 19th century. ...

Tory former minister Ed Vaizey says 'deal is within reach' as he chairs new body devoted to return Elgin Marbles to Greece. The Ancient Greek marvels were taken by Lord Elgin between 1801 and 1812 ...

Greece has a new president. Here’s what it means in the battle for the Elgin Marbles - Greek lawmakers have elected a leading advocate for the return of the disputed sculptures ...

The debate surrounding the rightful place of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Acropolis, the site of the ancient complex of temples that overlooks Athens, by agents of Lord Elgin ...