Don't miss out on the headlines from Europe. Followed categories will be added to My News. But a shocking discovery involving mummies has called the meaning of the 2500-year-old Elgin Marbles into ...

Students use a viewing guide while watching a program about the reconstruction of the Parthenon and discuss answers to questions related to the monument after watching. Built as a temple for the ...

Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age’s master builders Evan Hadingham View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, ...

Frederic Edwin Church’s 1871 painting, The Parthenon. The temple had already suffered damage from earthquake, bombing and occupation before Lord Elgin’s arrival in 1801 Courtesy Metropolitan Museum of ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In downtown Nashville, you’ll find a structure built for a Titan—a whole team of them in fact—but a few miles away stands a replica of a structure once built for a god. Deep ...

Much of the sculpture that once enhanced the Parthenon in Athens was brought to London by Lord Elgin 200 years ago. Was this the act of a saviour or a vandal? Mary Beard looks at both sides of a ...

But a shocking discovery involving mummies has called the meaning of the 2500-year-old Elgin Marbles into question, archaeologist and NYU professor Joan Breton Connelly argues in her new book The ...

The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wall of ...

FOR the past 230 years, the story of the Parthenon, the most influential building in the western world, seemed relatively straight-forward. But a shocking discovery has changed this. But a shocking ...