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

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

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 ...

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

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It clearly was also a calculated response to the new Temple of Zeus at Olympia, the home of the Olympic Games, which was finished less than 10 years before the Parthenon was begun, and which was ...

Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... and four fragments from the frieze of the temple to Athena Nike. Stories in StoneDefenders of Lord Elgin argue that the removal ...

The Parthenon was a temple dedicated to the goddess Athena Parthenos, meaning Athena the Virgin. It was built on the Acropolis - a rocky citadel at the heart of the city. Its central hall housed a ...

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The site is an elevated, flat-topped rock with an assortment of monuments and ruins built throughout the 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion.