Records indicate that when Bavarian soldiers arrived in Athens in the 1830s to drive the remaining Turks from the Acropolis, they took up residence in the Parthenon's mosque, turning the building ...

And since the buildings of classical Athens rarely reached higher than a storey or two, the Parthenon, which stands atop the Acropolis like a muscular statue upon a pedestal, would have dominated ...

The Acropolis is a massive archaeological site brimming with the artistic monuments and wonders of ancient Greece. Here are ...

The reunification of the Parthenon Marbles took center stage at a conference hosted by the Greek community of the London ...

But within this spacious museum building, visible from the Acropolis ... Germany and Italy have already returned fragments from the Parthenon to Athens. Britain should do its part, out of an ...

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 ...

This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the one found in Athens. Although ... peaceful atmosphere and magnificent building, recommending an evening visit to see ...

A century-old building in Athens, Georgia is a flashpoint between preservationists and the church that wants to knock it down for a parking lot.

The Parthenon is a world-renowned archaeological ... It is known that an invading Persian army in 480 BC destroyed buildings erected in the Acropolis of Athens at the time. Ancient Greek documents ...

"I think the Parthenon must have been the kind of building that you spat at and kicked if you could. You knew, if you were one of Athens' subjects, that this was a statement of your own subordination.

Johnson As its name suggests, the Acropolis Museum – which resides in central Athens' Makrigianni district ... the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous travelers ...