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Turkish official says no record of legitimate sale of the Parthenon Marbles
Euronews via Yahoo News· 23 hours agoThe British Museum has maintained that Ottoman authorities granted an imperial edict allowing the...
British Museum Says It Wants ‘Realistic Solutions’ to Parthenon Marbles Restitution Debate
ARTnews· 2 days agoThe British Museum said it is interested in “realistic solutions” to its ownership dispute with...
What happens on the British Museum’s £950 private tour
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 days agoIt would be an exaggeration to say that, in the summer daylight of 8.55am, Great Russell Street is...
I took my kids on a British Museum out-of-hours tour, it was even better than I expected
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 6 days agoI first learned about the British Museum’s Out of Hours tours while doing a general sweep of...
The Parthenon marbles evoke particularly fierce repatriation debates – an archaeologist explains why
The Conversation· 8 hours agoThe Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British Museum that British diplomat Lord ...
10 Oldest Recorded Recipes in History
Cheapism via AOL· 14 hours agoIn fact, beer was considered so essential that it was "treated principally as a type of food," according to the British Museum. "It was consumed daily...
Reward offered in search for stolen Bronze Age torc
BBC via AOL· 7 days agoThe torc is larger than usual examples and is made of 730g (1lb 10oz) of almost pure gold [Trustees of the British Museum] The charity Crimestoppers is...
Turkish official challenges British claim on Parthenon sculptures' ownership
Fox News· 2 days agoThe antiquities were taken from the Acropolis in Athens by Lord Elgin and are currently housed in...
Turkey backs Greece over reclaiming Elgin Marbles from ‘colonialist’ UK
Daily Telegraph· 3 days agoThe Greek government maintains that Lord Elgin stole the ancient sculptures from Athens in the 19th...
Greece is buoyed by a Turkish official's comments about Parthenon sculptures taken by Britain -...
ABC17 NEWS· 2 days agoGreece’s culture minister says the comments made by a Turkish official at a UNESCO meeting last week, casting doubt on the existence of proof long cited by Britain that it had legally acquired ...
