US: Exterior view of the Parthenon Museum in Tennessee Posted: January 8, 2025 | Last updated: January 8, 2025 Nashville, United States - December 28, 2024 Originally built for the 1897 Tennessee ...

The construction ingenuity of Athens' Parthenon has enabled it to miraculously survive natural disasters such as earthquakes.

The British Museum should return the ancient treasures to Greece for the sake of art, not nationalism.

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

These three battles (as well as episodes from the Trojan War) were also represented on the outside of the Parthenon, on the metopes of the building. So there is a thematic unity from the exterior ...

On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...

Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary ... However, you can tour the exterior of the building and its grounds for free. U.S. News Insider Tip: Take the “Women of ...

Sir St. Fry is a distinguished British actor, writer, director and a known philhellene and supporter of the return of the ...

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 ...

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 ...