After the blast, what remained of the Parthenon’s metopes, or relief-carved panels ... The Hunt explores art and ancient relics that are—alas!—lost to time. From the Ark of the Covenant ...

"For me the Parthenon sculptures reveal to us the tensions, the discontents, the conflicts, and also the sheer brilliance of Ancient Greek ... a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as ...

Evan Hadingham Inside the Parthenon, members of the Acropolis Restoration take delivery of the architrave stone. They are surrounded by repaired components incorporating new and ancient marble pieces.

Although the Parthenon might appear to be geometrically straight and built from interchangeable parts, it is not. The ancient Greeks worked subtle curves into the columns, architraves, floors ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the ... Unlike the lead-coated iron the ancient Greeks had used, Balanos's clamps were exposed to ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the ... which will showcase more than 4,000 ancient statues, friezes and artifacts when it opens in autumn 2008.

Many significant ancient Greek temples are found not only in Greece but also in other countries that were once part of the ...

The two high-relief sculptures were transferred to the Great Gymnasium of the excavations to begin restoration and will be among the prominent exhibits in the exhibition Being a Woman in Ancient ...

"For me the Parthenon sculptures reveal to us the tensions, the discontents, the conflicts, and also the sheer brilliance of Ancient Greek ... a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as ...