The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

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.

Soar over the ancient temples of Greece with this breathtaking drone footage. Experience the majestic Parthenon, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, and the historic ruins that tell the story of a grand ...

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 ...

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at ... the architectural and engineering mysteries of this celebrated ancient temple. National Corporate funding for NOVA is provided by Carlisle ...

Greece welcomed the repatriation of three ancient sculpture fragments from the Parthenon—a horse and two male ...

The museum’s aim is to eventually reunite the original elements of the Parthenon compositions. With South Metope IV, a left hind leg represents a first step. The Hunt explores art and ancient ...

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 collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... Lord Elgin sent Lusieri and his team to Athens to sketch ancient works of art, as requested by Harrison. Lusieri was given free ...