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

As Dorothy Lay tackles her bucket list, her granddaughter hopes the travels will slow her decline and prevent another ...

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

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 ...

And our resident Greek reporter is on the case. Subtle enough to the untrained eye but as plain as the columns of the Parthenon when you realise this particular absence from one of Athens’ most ...

I’m walking around the Colosseum in Rome, watching hundreds of other tourists doing the same, trying to imagine pivotal ...

By contrast, the Parthenon in Athens sits on top of a 156m ... with cocktail in hand and admire the distant Doric and Ionic columns, just as the Ancient Greeks couldn’t because they had neither ...

It’s astounding the things they leave lying around in Greece. Our ship has docked in ­Lavrio, southeast of Athens, and I’ve ...

In our modern world, moving at such an ultra-fast pace, it can feel like our cities are getting stripped of their history and ...

Start at the top floor Parthenon Gallery ... Originally made up of 34 white marble Doric columns, 15 of which remain, it commands amazing views over the Aegean Sea, which are particularly ...