There are many mysteries concerning the ancient Greek world, including the identity of some of its most illustrious members ...

led Elgin to request that a British warship docked in the port of Piraeus near Athens take the heaviest sculptures from the Parthenon pediments. Elgin had managed to keep the marbles from the ...

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... the Virgin Mary, Our Lady of Athens. The Parthenon's function as a church, along with the Byzantines' reign, lasted another millennium ...

Progress in the negotiations for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at a recent conference organized by the Greek community at the London School of Economics ...

The film scenes shot in the past on the Sacred Rock and the much-discussed photo shoots from Dior collections to Nelly's ...

Ancient Greek history is full of the names of great minds: philosophers, scientists, statesmen, generals, historians and ...

So much for the Parthenon sculptures at Athens, London and Paris. Very few other fragments of the world's most renowned group of decorative sculptures have been located. The celebrated horseman of ...

Johnson As its name suggests, the Acropolis Museum – which resides in central Athens' Makrigianni ... the head of a statue of Alexander the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts.

the Parthenon temple on the Acropolis in Athens sits incomplete. Parts of friezes that adorned it have been displayed at the British Museum instead for more than two centuries. The sculptures ...

It’s been a day packed with sightseeing and lessons in Greek history. Led by our Greek guide, Nanda, we walked to the Acropolis from our hotel. Yes we are getting our steps in, and unlike the ...