In 1816 the commission finally fixed the price of the marbles at £35,000 (approximately $500,000 in today’s money)—less than half Elgin’s asking price. Parliament approved the sale by a ...

The UK has cared for the Elgin Marbles for generations,' he said ... They were transferred to the British Museum in 1816 and have been the legal property of the British Museum, not the UK ...

Tallks over the British Museum returning the Elgin marbles to Athens are ‘well advanced’, it was reported last night. The ownership of the artefacts, which saw former prime minister Rishi ...

Elizabeth Marlowe, founder of the Museum Studies Program at Colgate University, gave a lecture on decolonizing museums ...