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 ...

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

The site is an elevated, flat-topped rock with an assortment of monuments and ruins built throughout the 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion.