The streets of Athens were generally dirty and noisy places. Most were unpaved and littered along them would have been much human and animal waste. Fortunately, thanks to Athens' drainage system ...

Indeed, one of the criticisms of Athens was that its slaves and freemen were difficult to tell apart. A fundamental part of economy, the most prized slaves worked as tutors and police officials ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

The chairman and founder of the International Organising Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles in ... to the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Mr Comino has spent the last 42 ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. For most western Europeans it was the ...