News Source: The Guardian
| 11 months ago
The soon-to-open museum for the Acropolis sculptures looks fantastic. But will it convince the British Museum to send the Parthenon frieze home? Last night the president, Dimitrios Pandermalis, and the architect, Bernard Tschumi , of the New...
News Source: Press TV
| 11 months ago
The piece, which was part of a frieze decorating the temple's inner colonnade, bears an inscription saying it was taken from the Acropolis in Athens on February 16, 1943, when Greece was occupied by the Germany-led Axis powers. Martha Dahlgren, who...