Concern among staff that fragile artwork’s scarce ‘light hours’ given to someone with no known interest in museum

The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology

The British scientists created their application by “marrying” virtual reality with geotagging technology

An artefact taken from the ruins of Tiwanaku and illegally exported from Bolivia more than 70 years ago has been seized by Australian customs officers and found by Australia’s highest court to be l…

Former Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam was a long time supporter of the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures. I was fortunate enough to see

Opposing @PoliceScotland view of Turkish gold wreath I find to my £cost Elgin's Memorandum was pure fiction. But I knew that so more fool me

The engraved marble fragment likely came from an archaic temple called the Hekatompedon, making it around 2,600 years old

A new documentary claims "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the Parthenon Sculptures were stolen, according to the director.

Organiser of petition says French president ignoring expert advice that artefact too fragile to be transported to UK

Bodies and body parts have long been part of collections of imperial plunder over the years – but museums must understand that attitudes have moved on

A small marble fragment believed to be from a 6th-century B.C. temple on the Acropolis has been voluntarily returned to Greece by a family in Chile that had held it for nearly a century, the culture m...

Thousands of human remains are held in German museums. Why can’t they go back?

Andrew George MP, the chair of the British Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, hosted a reception in Portcullis House yesterday

What can be done to stop Syria’s unprecedented scramble for antiquities? William Christou reports

Tapestry to go on display in British Museum next year, with treasures from Sutton Hoo lent to France in exchange

As rumours about talks to repatriate the Elgin Marbles to Greece resurface, we get two experts to make the case for and against their return.

When two planes crashed into the World Trade Center towers on September 11 2001 Howard Lutnick lost 658 of his colleagues. It was a tragedy of unthinkable proportions which we covered in last week’s e...

Accusations of a tasteless custom by Oxford dons overlook a rite that has been going on in Britain since the Stone Age

Decades-long use of chalice at Worcester College highlights violent colonial history of looted human remains, says Prof Dan Hicks

The Prime Minister has appointed Lord Daniel Finkelstein OBE, Tom Holland, Dr. Tiffany Jenkins, Martha Kearney and Claudia Winkleman as trustees of the British Museum; their four year terms started o...

Claims on the Guelph Treasure stretch back nearly two decades, and Germany’s plans to change how restitutions are evaluated are now adding new wrinkles.

What are museums for?

The Elgin Marbles, also known as the Parthenon Sculptures, are a collection of classical Greek marble sculptures that were part of the Parthenon and…

A long-lost Buddhist painting is finally making its way back home from the U.S., 35 years after it was stolen from a temple in Korea.

Christmas Acropolis Museum - This festive season, enjoy a magical blend of cultural activities, from children’s programs to live music

A stunning ancient Greek statue was recently discovered during work on the natural gas network in Athens near the Acropolis.

The culture war is over. If you want it to be. It wasn’t even a culture war; it was a war on culture. A sustained attack, Dan Hicks argues, in the form of the weaponisation of civic museums, public ar...

It doesn’t take much nous to see what’s going on with the Elgin Marbles. After the PM’s affectionate chat with the Greek Prime Minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the other day, Sir Keir Starmer’s office h...

British Museum chairman says both sides are ‘still some distance’ from a deal on the sculptures, but that ‘a lot of progress’ has been made