The life of the Scottish aristocrat who went down in history as the perpetrator of the barbaric theft of the Parthenon ...

Few Greek myths have as many twists as the story of the Parthenon Marbles, prised out of the Acropolis in Athens by an ...

has been the subject of bitter dispute since they were removed by agents acting on behalf of Georgian architectural salvage hunter Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. Swirling accusations over the le ...

The Elgin Marbles, a collection of sculptures removed from the Parthenon in Athens and other nearby ancient buildings were shipped to England under the command of Thomas Bruce, 7th Lord Elgin. As the ...

It was partially destroyed during a Venetian bombardment in 1687, and in the early 1800s workmen took friezes from the ...

Scottish nobleman Thomas Bruce, known as Lord Elgin. Elgin sold the marbles to the British government, which in 1817 passed them on to the British Museum where they remain one of its most prized ...

They were removed by Thomas Bruce, "Lord Elgin," in the early 19th century, when he was British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire. Some of the remaining temple statues are on display in the ...