A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and the patron goddess of Athens. Despite enduring damage, that masterpiece ...

Indeed, the statue of Athena wore enough removable gold plate to operate as something of a bank. As Neils points out in The Parthenon Frieze, “Given all this gold (44 talents) this statue was the ...

But now, Juan de Lara, an archaeologist at the University of Oxford, has created a virtual model of the Parthenon that upends ... “Given my background in 3D modeling and [computer-generated ...