In the summer of 1897, a team of architects in Nashville completed a life-size replica of the Parthenon — an homage to classical Greece in the heart of the American South. They expected to bask in the ...

Still, “we know little about what actually took place inside the Parthenon,” de Lara tells Artnet News’ Richard Whiddington. “What rituals were performed? Who was allowed to enter and when?” In ...

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

“We know little about what actually took place inside the Parthenon,” Lara said. “What rituals were performed? Who was allowed to enter and when?” Despite such uncertainty, Lara thinks ...

Heavily influenced by Byzantine architecture, the rebuilt structure is made from Pentelic marble—the same type of stone that makes up the Parthenon ... facade of the church. Inside, St ...

All survived mostly intact for more than 1,000 years, despite war, earthquakes, foreign invasions and the temple’s makeover first as a church and then a mosque. But in 1687, the Parthenon was ...

Pope Francis has ordered the Vatican Museums to return three Parthenon fragments to Greece ... on repairing relations with the Greek Orthodox Church. Pope Francis last met with Archbishop ...

An artifact of a ceramic spiritual dog from Mexico is exhibited inside the ‘Repatriation and Its Impact’ at The Parthenon in Nashville, Tenn., Friday, May 3, 2024. "It's not that unusual a ...

During the visit, the pope publicly acknowledged the mistakes of the Catholic Church in dealing with Greek Orthodox communities and took a nighttime tour of the Parthenon. The Pope made another ...

as a gesture of ecumenical dialogue with the Roman Catholic Church. The marble head of a young man, a tiny fragment from the 2,500-year-old sculptured decoration of the Parthenon Temple on the ...

Pope Francis ordered the Vatican Museums to return the three Parthenon marbles held in their ... of Athens and head of the Greek Orthodox Church, and said it signaled “a concrete sign of his ...

Juan de Lara By combining archaeology and technology, a researcher has shed light on a longstanding architectural mystery: how the ancient Greeks experienced the inside of the Parthenon ...