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

But the Parthenon’s true nature, as a new study reveals, was something very different — and far more extraordinary. Inside, it turns out, was deliberately very dark. Archaeologist Juan de Lara ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Inside the secret meetings that could seal the fate of the Parthenon Marbles on facebook (opens in a new window) Inside the secret meetings that could seal the fate of the Parthenon Marbles on ...

as a gesture of ecumenical dialog with the Roman Catholic Church. The Parthenon, which is on the Acropolis in Athens, was completed in the fifth century BC as a temple to the goddess Athena ...

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 ...

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?” ...

Two centuries after they were hauled from the ruins of the Parthenon temple in Athens by a British nobleman, the treasures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are among the greatest in the British ...