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Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on the Acropolis of Athens housed a colossal statue made of gold and ivory, carved by the famous sculptor Phidias in 438 BC. Its view from the entrance of the ...

The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been ...

Reattaching the marbles to the fragile ruins of the temple, whose roof was blown off by the Venetians in 1687 ... Parthenon to Athens. Britain should do its part, out of an impulse toward ...

Reattaching the marbles to the fragile ruins of the temple, whose roof was blown off by the Venetians in 1687, would be ... fragments from the Parthenon to Athens. Britain should do its part, out of ...

All You Need To Know About Parthenon Marbles, 200-Year-Old Debate Over Them Known in Britain as the Elgin Marbles, the 2,500-year-old sculptures for centuries adorned the Parthenon temple built at ...

Trinity College Dublin provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British ...

The first explosion occurred in 1656, followed by a much larger one in 1687 ... Greece began the restoration of the building in 1835. In 1894, one of the largest earthquakes Greece experienced damaged ...

But in 1687, the Parthenon was blown up by a besieging Venetian army, and many of the works were lost. “Of the 50 percent of the original sculptures that survive, about half are in the British ...

"If all restoration demands ... the history of the Parthenon itself, which had sculptures "defaced and displaced" in the sixth century, before being blown up in 1687. Then, during the Grand ...

But they weren’t always that way, according to a new study, which found the famous 2,500-year-old Parthenon sculptures ... conservation treatments — restoration treatments — these small ...