For the past 230 years or so, the story that was sculpted into the frieze of the Parthenon, the most influential building in the western world, has seemed fairly straight-forward, depicting a civic ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Katie Petrole knows her ancient history. But seven years ago the museum professional knew nothing about the world’s only exact replica of the Parthenon that’s holding court ...

Ancient Greece, long envisioned as a realm of pure white marble, is now revealed to have been vibrantly colorful. Scientific ...

Students use a viewing guide while watching a program about the reconstruction of the Parthenon and discuss answers to questions related to the monument after watching. Built as a temple for the ...

The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wall of ...

It’s hard not to be awestruck standing in front of the Parthenon marbles. The collection of sculptures adorned the famous archeological site, which was originally built as a temple to Athena in ...

An Oxford professor has meticulously employed 3D modeling tools to create a stunning digital reconstruction of the Parthenon.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In downtown Nashville, you’ll find a structure built for a Titan—a whole team of them in fact—but a few miles away stands a replica of a structure once built for a god. Deep ...

For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most iconic structure, completely free of scaffolding, but not for long. Since the ...

The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been using ...