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

Neil Berriman's mother was at the centre of an infamous murder case The son of the woman thought to have been murdered by Lord Lucan believes the peer "could still be alive" following his ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

They were removed by 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 purpose-built Acropolis ...

They were removed by 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 purpose-built Acropolis ...