Eventually, gunpowder the Turks had stored in the Parthenon ignited, blowing out 28 columns, damaging several internal rooms, and killing up to 300 people. In the ensuing century and a half ...

I believe that the refinements were made to give the Parthenon an impression of being a living mass that responded to its own weight. For example, each column has a slight swelling at its center ...

The construction ingenuity of Athens' Parthenon has enabled it to miraculously survive natural disasters such as earthquakes.

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 ...

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

With a name like “The Parthenon,” you might expect a space with some marble columns, a sculpture perhaps—just a faint whiff of antiquity. Instead, this Union Square Greek restaurant feels ...

Parthenon sculpture ... Around all four sides of the building, above the columns and easily seen by everybody approaching, was a series of 92 square relief carvings, known as metopes.

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek lawmakers on Wednesday elected as president a former parliamentary speaker and leading advocate for the return of the disputed Parthenon sculptures from the British ...