A major push to renovate the Parthenon came in the 1890s when chief restoration engineer Nikolaos Balanos, under the auspices of the Greek government, embarked on a long-term project to strengthen ...

Amazingly, the ancient Athenians built the Parthenon in just eight or nine years. Repairing it is taking a bit longer. A restoration project funded by the Greek government and the European Union ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary ... Today, the Greek government is overseeing a massive restoration effort. Although the edifice cannot be returned ...

Before the restoration team could begin, they had to take apart, block by block, and repair nearly every piece of the Parthenon. That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer ...

Progress in the negotiations for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at ... The British Museum's impending reconstruction is seen as an opportune moment for the ...

The current appearance of the sculptures owes much to the highly controversial restoration ... successive Greek governments have petitioned for the return of the Parthenon marbles.

The Parthenon was painted. Although our vision of ancient Greece is often of gleaming ... After a recent restoration, it ...

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' negotiations over a return. https://p.dw ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central ... the 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion.