The most ambitious building program in Greek history, the building of the Parthenon was Pericles' greatest ... which caused great resentment among many of Athens' allies, who were to be the ...

Records indicate that when Bavarian soldiers arrived in Athens in the 1830s ... A major push to renovate the Parthenon came in the 1890s when chief restoration engineer Nikolaos Balanos, under ...

Discover Athens' architectural evolution, blending ancient landmarks like the Acropolis with modern sustainable designs.

The current appearance of the sculptures owes much to the highly controversial restoration ... the port of Piraeus near Athens take the heaviest sculptures from the Parthenon pediments.

Originally built for Tennessee's 1897 Centennial Exposition, this replica of the Parthenon in Athens, Greece, serves as a monument to what is considered the pinnacle of classical architecture.

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 ...

New evidence say that the Parthenon sculptures were colorful and had detailed designs with human figures and palm leaf patterns.

Songwriter Desmond Child appealed for the Parthenon Sculptures' return to Greece at The National Hellenic Society (NHS) ...

If a bottle of cold, local craft beer with views of the Parthenon temple is up your street, head to Cava Nektar, a fun, relaxed restaurant and liquor store on Athens’s main shopping thoroughfare ...

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 ...

Still, the city is also known as the "Athens of the South" thanks to the numerous higher education institutions established there. This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale ...