In 1687, when Venetian forces that were ... A major push to renovate the Parthenon came in the 1890s when chief restoration engineer Nikolaos Balanos, under the auspices of the Greek government ...

The 1687 explosion knocked one of the massive ... A few years after the Parthenon restoration began, University of Pennsylvania scholar Lothar Haselberger was on a field trip exploring the Temple ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the ... is overseeing a massive restoration effort. Although the edifice cannot be returned to its pre-1687 condition, the goal ...

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war ... to the highly controversial restoration carried out in the ...

ATHENS - Restoration work on Athens' Acropolis is set to shift to the west side of the Parthenon under a 40-year ... damaged during a Venetian siege in 1687. In addition, the best sculpture ...

Over the years, the Parthenon has suffered from fire, war, revolution, looting, misguided restoration and pollution ... to the structure though came in 1687 when a Venetian mortar ignited the ...

To make matters worse, at the beginning of the 20th century, the Parthenon was subjected to catastrophic restorations. CATHY PARASCHI: More recent damage was done in the 1900s by the restoration ...

The Parthenon was one of the most famous monuments of the ancient world. But today its columns are crumbling to dust. Its current state isn’t due to wear and tear from exposure to the elements ...

Thank goodness that won't happen, because in 1975 a team of archaeologists, architects and engineers launched an ambitious 25 million dollar restoration project. The Parthenon restoration is ...

Restoration work on Athens' Acropolis is set to shift to the west side of the Parthenon under a 40-year-long effort to ... Like most of the temple, the pediment was damaged during a Venetian siege in ...