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 ...

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 ...

Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... was completed in 1938 but installation of the marbles was halted by World War II. During the Nazi raids on London, the marbles ...

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 ...

This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the one found in Athens. Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary – it was built for the Tennessee ...

Andrew Norman Wilson, a prolific and influential British author who regularly writes for The Times of London, expressed his opposition to any scenario involving the return of the Parthenon ...

“Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis thanked Italy and Sicily for the return of the fragment and a year later, the Holy See, on the initiative of Pope Francis, donated another three Parthenon ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. For most western Europeans it was the ...