A British organization wants to carve Parthenon Marbles replicas into Mount Pentelicus so Greece can become home to its own ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

If Athens is a short stop on your Greece itinerary, don’t worry. This two-day planner contains everything you need to see and ...

the Acropolis refers to the hill in the center of the city upon which Athens' most renowned ancient monuments – including the Herod Atticus Odeon, Erechtheion and, of course, the Parthenon ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners ... 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike ...

So the Parthenon was an attempt on the part of Pericles and Athens to assert the city's cultural, political, and military dominance over the rest of Greece and the Aegean. Pericles called Athens ...

On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...

The chairman and founder of the International Organising Committee for the Restitution of the Parthenon Marbles in ... to the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Mr Comino has spent the last 42 ...

By incorporating this scene of civic celebration, the scholars suggest, the Parthenon served not merely as an imperial propaganda statement but also as an expression of Athens’ burgeoning ...

Before the restoration team could begin, they had to take apart, block by block, and repair nearly every piece of the Parthenon. That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer ...

In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been using the Classical temple as a storage ...