A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior ... A few years after the Parthenon restoration began, University of Pennsylvania scholar Lothar Haselberger was on a field trip exploring ...

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum ... of the sculptures owes much to the highly controversial restoration carried out in the 1930s, in which aggressive cleaning ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display while returning the originals to Athens.

An exhibit that will most likely be missing is the so-called Elgin Marbles, sculptural works that include 247 feet of the original Parthenon frieze. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to ...

These include about half of the surviving fragments of a 160-meter-long (520-foot) frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of ...

In November 2023, Rishi Sunak peevishly cancelled a meeting with his Greek counterpart, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, after he dared to mention the restoration ... of the Parthenon frieze is overwhelming.