The Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British Museum that British diplomat Lord Elgin was given permission from Ottoman ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greece has welcomed the return of ancient artefacts from the Acropolis, furthering a campaign to press the British Museum to hand ...

ATHENS, Greece — It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn't last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in years. Greek residents and visitors in recent weeks ...

The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been using ...

Tourists rest at Pnyx as the 5th century BC Parthenon temple stands free of scaffolding on Acropolis Hill in Athens (Petros Giannakouris/AP) Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in decades: an unobstructed, ...

A marble fragment from Athens' Acropolis was uncovered in the wreckage of Lord Elgin's ship, the Mentor, shedding new light on the controversy surrounding the Parthenon Marbles.

Excavations at the site of the 1802 Mentor shipwreck uncovered a marble fragment that may have ties to the Parthenon in ...

For the first time in over two centuries, a fragment of sculptural decoration from the Parthenon has been recovered from the shipwreck of Lord Elgin’s “Mentor.” The discovery, made during the 2025 ...