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. The Byzantines converted the ...

The Parthenon is a gem of ancient Greek architecture for its perfect appearance, but its perfection results from optical ...

(This video is no longer available for online streaming.) For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by ...

Originally built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, this replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture.

Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...

The largest temple on the Acropolis, the Parthenon has operated as an archaeological site since 1833, surviving wars and natural disasters to become the symbol of modern Greece. While Athens has ...

(Mary Beard) "The whole Parthenon - not only the sculptures but the building - became emblematic, the symbol of new Greece. It still is, and we're still restoring it, and naturally, of course ...

who chairs the advisory board of the Parthenon Project dedicated to returning the Elgin Marbles to Greece, told the Today programme it was "odd" for the PM to cancel the meeting. The ex-culture ...

Greece has welcomed Italy's return of a marble fragment from the Parthenon, calling on the British Museum to open talks on returning those parts of the archaeological monument it still holdshttps ...