The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been ...

If you visit, it’s well worth taking the time to appreciate some of the more remarkable sites. The champion of the Acropolis must surely be the Parthenon, which, according to Andrew Stewart’s book One ...