led Elgin to request that a British warship docked in the port of Piraeus near Athens take the heaviest sculptures from the Parthenon pediments. Elgin had managed to keep the marbles from the ...

Spanning the temple’s entablature, the frieze held 92 metopes—28 facing the east and west, and 64 split ... Times—and it is not the only Parthenon sculpture to be so divided.

East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media. Via Shutterstock) Progress in the negotiations for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at a recent ...