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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Take Greek mythology, for example: those stories are timeless because we constantly refer to myths and stories of Ancient Greece to make ... perfect Parthenon, and Golden Age theaters.

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...

(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 ...

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

The Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are a frieze of sculptures that once adorned the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. They were removed between 1801 and 1815 by Lord Elgin, the British ...