A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior ...

Despite initial impressions, ancient Greek temples were not built to impress 21st-century tourists; they were made to house ...

Amazons, werewolves and unnamed traders: historian Owen Rees uncovers the lives hidden at the edges of ancient empires – and ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and ...

The Temple of Hera, home to the predecessor of the Olympic Games, is one of the oldest religious sanctuaries in Greece.

It is renowned for its golden-white color and is particularly noted for its use in ancient Greek architecture and sculpture. Perhaps the most famous example of Pentelic marble is the Parthenon on ...

(The ruins of another ancient city called Salamis ... last year found a public building called a stoa. The term in Greek architecture refers to a freestanding covered walkway, which was built ...