On arriving in Athens ... shows how the Parthenon would have looked in antiquity identifies where the friezes (1), metopes (2), and pediments (3) seen in the following photos would have been ...

On September 19, 2024, Athenians took to the roads of Downtown Athens to celebrate the “Athens in the Streets Festival”. This festival, which took place in front of First America Bank in ...

Before the restoration team could begin, they had to take apart, block by block, and repair nearly every piece of the Parthenon. That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer ...

(Photo by Costas Baltas/Anadolu via Getty Images) The Parthenon Temple atop ... a fire that started in Varnavas, East Attica, near the Greek capital Athens on August 13, 2024.

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made around 440 BC). Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens ...

and marveled at the designs of Phidias and the new Parthenon. Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular for his rivals to topple him as the city's leader.

The medals given out to athletes at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games showed a relief engraving of the Parthenon atop the Acropolis. Above it, the words “12th Paralympic Games Athens 2004” are written ...

After reaching the urban fringes of Athens, the blaze forced thousands to flee. It destroyed homes, businesses, green spaces ...

The NHS, an association of Greek American leaders, visionaries, and philanthropists is gearing up for its annual Heritage ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis ... were usually only issued in an emergency. Athens, in Attica (a province of central Greece) is ...

Athens sprawls across the Attica Basin, a valley surrounded on ... Erechtheion and, of course, the Parthenon – are found. Once the political hub of ancient Athens, the Acropolis ruins tower ...

British tourists are among the thousands evacuated from the Greek wildfires raging as high as 80ft around the Parthenon ...