Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence Having brought the statues and reliefs to England, Lord Elgin proposed putting them on public display—a noble idea that was undermined by his ...

The distinguished Roman historian Susan Walker explains ... His head was on coins, and everywhere there were statues. But the British Museum's head is a head from no ordinary statue, it takes ...

The museum's Western Range galleries house ancient Roman, Egyptian ... Greek authorities maintain the sculptures were looted ...