Hurwit: "Acropolis" means the high point of the city ... It also had an Ionic frieze running around the top of the cella walls [the interior walls of the building] representing an idealized ...

whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a mosque, complete with a minaret. Detail from the western frieze of the ...

Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters from east to west and 150 meters from north to south. Its first ...

should return to its original place at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. The Fagan Fragment, a piece of the eastern frieze of the Parthenon, was part of the archaeological collection of the former ...

Figure 1 shows the Parthenon — the temple of Athena, built in the fifth century BC on the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The marble frieze that runs along the top of the temple depicts the festive ...

Workers are putting the final touches to the New Acropolis Museum in Athens in readiness ... to secure the return of the long sculpted frieze have been conducted in polite terms by diplomats ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...

custom-built to showcase a life-size mock-up of the 525-foot marble frieze that once wrapped around the Parthenon." The ...