View of one of the 46 outer columns of ... associate professor of architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and a leading Parthenon scholar who had spent decades poringover ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

A British organization wants to carve Parthenon Marbles replicas into Mount Pentelicus so Greece can become home to its own ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

An open-air museum filled with sites of antiquity, the Greek capital has a well-earned reputation for being a rewarding ...

If Athens is a short stop on your Greece itinerary, don’t worry. This two-day planner contains everything you need to see and ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners ... 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike ...

An open-air museum filled with sites of antiquity, the Greek capital has a well-earned reputation for being a rewarding ...

The Elgin Marbles, originally part of Parthenon and Acropolis of Athens. On display in the British Museum in Duveen Gallery. East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media.