but also to re-create their original appearance insofar as possible. When faced with this exceptional task, the Committee for the Conservation of the Acropolis Monuments followed a governing ...

This has been easier said than done. Tens of thousands of original pieces exist, some scattered around the Acropolis, others around the world, and still others lost forever. Whatever pieces the ...

The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone mesa above hectic modern Athens, is so integral to the texts of our history books—and the subtexts of our imaginations—that it is one of those ...

The team has inventoried and measured thousands of marble fragments scattered across the Acropolis. Korres plans to place each salvageable chunk in its original position, while new marble from the ...

but suggested it could be a Roman-era copy of a fifth century B.C. original. It was unearthed under the junction of two modern streets at the southern end of the Acropolis hill, a few dozen yards ...

Exposed on the Acropolis, the Parthenon was a highly vulnerable ... providing models for artists, the original pieces were displayed together with molds of the missing fragments.

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. The Acropolis is consistently inundated with tourists, with as many as 23,000 visitors clogging up ... [+] the complex on some days.

Located near the Acropolis and the Benaki Museum ... While only 15 of the original 104 columns of the temple are still standing, this landmark is one of the most common associated with Athens ...