Inside the temple, archaeologists found fragments of a marble wash basin measuring over 3 feet across, the institute said. The basin, also known as a perirrhanterion, was used for ritual purification.

More than a century and a half later, Temple ... marble. A 21st-century restoration dusted off 75 years' worth of dust, leaving the interior as clean and vibrant-looking as ever. Inside the ...

In its place, the Christians installed a pulpit and a marble bishop's throne, and the temple of Athena Parthenos became the church and later the Latin cathedral of Parthenos Maria, the Virgin Mary ...