The only hint of the prizes locked inside those damp Trastevere storerooms was an old catalog, published in 1885, that reproduced all of the marbles with a then-novel technology of camera-based ...

Known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, the 2,500-year-old sculptures adorned the Parthenon temple built at the pinnacle of ancient Athens's power in honour of the city's patron goddess ...