Sculpture

Greece has called on the British government to stop stonewalling the return of the Parthenon Marbles despite a request for negotiations from the United Nations. The stance shown by the U.K. has been described as "clinging on to stolen booty for dear life itself" rather than return the sculptures to their rightful home, a country that is on the brink of economic collapse.

The artist who will be paid 10,000 Turkish Liras in compensation from President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an, after the latter called his sculpture to promote reconciliation between Turkey and Armenia a ?freak? is planning to spend the money on a March 21, Nevruz holiday celebration with his friends.

Video footage, coincidentally found by a Turkish collector in a German flea market, which shows excavations on Mount Nemrut in 1965, as well as the life of locals in the region, has revealed a big scandal. The sculpted head of the King of Commagene, King Antiochus, which is now at the Gaziantep Zeugma Museum, was seized while being smuggled abroad by a German.

A court has ordered President Recep Tayyip Erdo?an to pay 10,000 Turkish Liras to the artist responsible for a sculpture in the northeastern province of Kars, which he had demanded the removal of and described as a ?freak.? 

During a Jan. 8, 2011 visit to Kars, then Prime Minister Erdo?an slammed the city?s new 35-meter-tall ?Monument to Humanity,? created by sculptor Mehmet Aksoy.

The Hatay Archaeology Museum, which opened in the last week of 2014, is now home to the world-famous Antakya sarcophagus, which had been unearthed during a construction excavation in 1993 and displayed at a special place in an old museum since then.

 British Museum’s loan of Parthenon sculpture to Hermitage rouses political, cultural passions

By Elis Kiss

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Turkey on Dec. 6 announced its support for Greece's fight to get back from Britain the famous Elgin Marbles - ancient Greek sculptures also known as the Parthenon Marbles which were taken from Athens in the 19th century.

KOSTOLAC - Archeological digs in Viminacium, capital of the Roman province of Moesia Superior between 1st and 4th centuries AD, revealed exquisitely carved marble statues and a gold necklace from the Roman period.

Previously a temple thought to honor ancient Egyptian gods, then converted to a church, the Red Basilica pays homage to the different cultures and societies that have inhabited Anatolia Archaeological excavations have begun focusing on the basement of the Red Basilica, one of the seven churches in Bergama, which is on UNESCO’s World Heritage List, and is one of the tallest surviving structur

Moore is renowned for his semi-abstract sculptures, but this exhibition aims to introduce the Serbian public to his lesser-known drawings and graphics.

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