Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum ... Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence Having brought the statues and reliefs to England, Lord Elgin proposed putting ...

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 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens ... that wound up in the British Museum—but in a greatly reduced ...

Last year, the academic and British Museum trustee Mary Beard stressed in a debate about the Parthenon Marbles, held at the British Museum, that the Bloomsbury institution should indeed be viewed ...

For most people today, the Parthenon sculptures in the British Museum provoke only one question ... was a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as metopes. Like all the other sculpture ...

a collection of sculptures from the Parthenon and other structures from the Acropolis of Athens, most of which were created in the 5th century BC and are held in the British museum in London.

It's arguably the best museum in all of London. What's more, it's free to visit. From the Rosetta Stone to the Parthenon Sculptures to Mesopotamian objects, the British Museum is a history buff's ...

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Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken from their country of origin in colonial contexts, such as the museum’s most ...