A centaur head and two more marble fragments taken from the Parthenon in the 17th century are among the most popular exhibits ...

The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian Byzantines ... the Venetians cherished its Christian history. But the Venetians bombarded the building with ...

The proposal to create high-quality replicas could serve as a compromise, allowing the British Museum to retain a display ...

This story appears in the March/April 2017 issue of National Geographic History ... Greece regained its independence in 1832. By the middle of the 18th century yet more of the ruined Parthenon ...

Q: How does it represent classical Greece to us today ... Still, the Acropolis and the Parthenon in particular had a checkered history. In 427 or 426, an earthquake apparently struck Athens ...

An ancient bronze griffin head, stolen nearly a century ago, has been returned to the Archaeological Museum of Olympia ...

(Mary Beard) "The whole Parthenon - not only the sculptures but the building - became emblematic, the symbol of new Greece ... things about recent European history is how countries wanting ...

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 ...

This sculpture from the Parthenon shows a Centaur rearing triumphantly ... The sculpture also represents Greece's struggle to resist being absorbed into the Persian Empire. The Greeks had a ...