A man drinks water in front of the Parthenon temple, during a heatwave in Athens, Greece on July 8, 2025. (Photo by Costas Baltas/Anadolu via Getty Images) Visitors to Greece can now enjoy a clear, ...

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and Law. I ...

ATHENS, Greece -- 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, scaffolding ...

The hills around Vari, 10 miles southeast of Athens, are etched with the musings of bored shepherds. The more than 2,000 graffiti (and counting) feature trireme warships, speeding horses, packs of ...

A marble fragment recovered from the seabed off a Greek island is adding a new layer to a centuries-old cultural dispute. The ...

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

For centuries, the Parthenon marbles at the British Museum have been a brilliant white. However, like many sculptures admired for their unadorned look, these works were once brightly colored and ...

After Kyriakos Mitsotakis called for the British Museum to return the Parthenon marbles, his British counterpart abruptly called off their meeting. By Alex Marshall Mark Landler and Niki Kitsantonis ...