‘You are only the sixth person to see this since the Vikings’: Behind the scenes at the National Museum of Ireland
From Early-Bronze Age pottery to a red Honda 50, the museum’s venues tell the story of Ireland one object at a time
Elgin Marbles
Priest brought Biafra refugees to Wicklow without permission – and other strange tales from Dublin and London files
Records released by Irish and British archives include details of a ‘republican’ artefact thief and a ‘radical’ UK proposal to hold asylum seekers on a Scottish island
Mark Paul: It may be the British Museum, but it’s the rest of the world’s clobber
The Greek friezes are not the only artefacts to end up in the British Museum in dubious circumstances
Rishi Sunak’s stony face on ‘long-settled matter’ of so-called Elgin Marbles is illogical and foolish
One obvious solution gets around the issue of ownership of the Parthenon sculptures put on display in the British Museum in 1832
Greece-UK row over Parthenon sculptures escalates as Sunak cancels meeting
Athens has repeatedly called on British Museum to return 2,500-year-old marbles removed from Parthenon temple in 1806
After 220 years, the fate of the Parthenon marbles rests in secret talks
The British Museum and Greece’s prime minister are getting closer to a deal on returning the so-called Elgin Marbles to Athens. But key differences remain
Who owns our heritage?
James Cuno of the Getty Foundation says that antiquities belong to us all, not to the states where they happen to be, and that they should be universally accessible
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