Archeologists estimate that Turkish soldiers removed 520 blocks of marble from the Parthenon ruins to create makeshift defenses, or broke them apart to make bullets from the lead that coated the ...

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 ...

Nevertheless, thanks to the spacious Acropolis Museum, visitors could see the ruins of the temple and then the Parthenon marbles in the same afternoon. They could also appreciate the irony of the ...

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 ...

Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London.

At the Parthenon, our tour guide, Joanna ... In the morning, we were guided through the ruins of ancient Sparta and then took a short bus ride to the ruins of Mystras, which included a 12th-century ...

One of central Athens' best preserved ruins is the Temple of Hephaestus ... In fact, some felt this ruin deserved more accolades than the Parthenon, despite its smaller size.

Key exhibits include a relief of Athena Nike, several carved statues from Erechtheion, the head of a statue of Alexander the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. For most western Europeans it was the ...