Elgin’s collection of Acropolis marbles was purchased by the British government in 1816 for £35,000. Considering the original ...

The biggest stories of the day delivered to your inbox.

the marbles were moved to the Elgin Room in the British Museum in 1832. As the exhibition had an educational purpose, providing models for artists, the original pieces were displayed together with ...

[Martin] of the band [Wintergatan] is on his third quest to build the ultimate musical marble machine, and that means dropping marbles with maximum reliability and precision timing. Working ...

Government officials have discussed legal ways they could block any export of the Elgin Marbles, Sky News understands, as Downing Street cancelled a meeting between the prime minister and his ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor ...

One of the biggest and most important parts of your motor is the engine block or cylinder block, which may be built from cast iron or aluminum depending on your vehicle. It functions as the lower ...

Each position in the card has a gap to allow a marble to pass ( a set bit), or no gap to block the marble (an unset bit). The operator loads 5 marbles and a punch card and launches the marbles ...

There has been a longstanding disagreement between Greece and the UK about whether the marbles should be returned to Athens More than 200 years after they were torn from their country's most ...

With Alien: Romulus now out in cinemas, lots of us that loved the original films will be revisiting ... milk and, uh... marbles. Sure, why not. Maybe save the marathon for after dinner, tbh.

Somehow, after just two episodes of The Block for 2024, fans are already convinced they know who the villain is. And to be honest, I fully agree. Engaged couple Jesse Maguire and Paige Beechey ...

This book is no longer available to purchase from Cambridge Core Professor Adolf Michaelis (1835–1910) was a classical scholar specialising in Greek and Roman sculpture. He studied classical philology ...