ATHENS (AFP) — Greece's top archaeological monument, the Acropolis, was partially shut Tuesday as part of emergency measures to protect visitors and workers around the country during a four-day heat ...

The Parthenon was far more than a temple. It was Athens’ ultimate power move, which combined religion, politics, and economic ...

Our Lady of Athens The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines, who promptly enacted a series of decrees outlawing pagan worship.

For the past 230 years or so, the story that was sculpted into the frieze of the Parthenon, the most influential building in the western world, has seemed fairly straight-forward, depicting a civic… ...

Joan Connelly’s new book about the Parthenon argues that this technically astonishing and ornately decorated temple, completed in 438 B.C. at Athens’ height of influence and power, was ...

The Greek government has said it was in talks over repatriation of the sculptures, which were removed by British diplomat Lord Elgin from the imposing Parthenon temple in Athens in the early 19th ...

The Parthenon in the Acropolis of Athens, Greece. Ancient graffiti may shed new light on the history of the Acropolis. iStock. "The inscription [beside the engraving] does not mention the ...

ATHENS — In Athens, you can’t escape time’s arrow. Not even in a shiny new subway station in the heart of the city. “Do you know how many Athens we are standing on right now?” asked ...

The chair of the British Museum says the U.K. and Greece are working on a deal that would see his institution's Parthenon Marbles displayed in both London and Athens.

Nashville Parthenon: How Music City became home to the world’s only exact replica of a famous Greek temple by: Sebastian Posey Posted: Dec 3, 2022 / 07:00 AM CST ...