The Parthenon in Athens briefly shed its scaffolding. Here’s a look at its restoration

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...
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A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens

When 77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce heard on the radio that Greece was fighting for marble sculptures from ...

Photos: Parthenon in Athens briefly shed its scaffolding for first time in years

St. Louis firefighters responded to a fire in a vacant building in the 7000 block of South Broadway in St. Louis, on Monday, ...

Photos of the unobstructed ancient Parthenon in Athens

Greek residents and visitors in recent weeks enjoyed an unobstructed view of the marble temple crowning the Acropolis as ...

Historic find: a man believes he has a fragment of the Parthenon, but authorities discover it was from an older temple

A Chilean engineer inherited a small piece of marble that was once part of the Acropolis in Athens. The fragment has been returned to Greece.

The Parthenon in Athens briefly shed its scaffolding

It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...
CounterPunch

Untouched by Time: The Beauty and Vision of Freedom

Prologue The Roosevelt poster on freedom is timeless. I thought about its message while on the Parthenon. In early October ...
Artnet

These Photographs of the Parthenon Covered by a Rare Snowstorm Like a Magical Ancient Wedding Cake Are Going Viral

Best known for its ancient architecture and balmy clime, the city of Athens, Greece is currently blanketed in inches of snow, with temperatures dipping into the negative digits. The city has not seen ...
Mansion Global

Neoclassical Home in the Garden of Athens’s Acropolis Museum Has Epic Views of the Parthenon

The next owner of this seven-bedroom neoclassical home in the center of Athens will live in the shadow of the gods. The house, listed earlier this month for €12.8 million (approximately US$13.85 ...
The News-Herald

Ancient Greece: Parthenon an icon of antiquity built for Greek gods

I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...