Do you think you know the Parthenon, Greece's ancient marvel? But do you know it well enough that it had a pool?

The mystery of the Parthenon’s lighting system, and how ancient Greeks illuminated the statue of Athena, is finally solved in ...

Greece and Turkey argue that Lord Elgin had no firman permissing him to remove the artifacts, while the UK claims Elgin had ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and the patron goddess of Athens. Despite enduring damage, that masterpiece ...

Greece's minister of culture,Giorgos Vougarakis, doffed his suit jacket and lent a hand to a team of technicians in Athens on Thursday, as officials demonstrated the process of transferring more than ...

Temples are hallowed ground, sheltering a community’s most coveted religious or cultural artifacts. Ancient Greece cultivated its Athenian Acropolis — the hilltop complex that includes the ancient ...

In its bid to claim the mantle as the Athens of the South, the city of Nashville constructed a life-size replica of the Parthenon for Tennessee’s centennial celebrations in 1897. Its architects ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in years. Greek residents and visitors in recent weeks ...

The painted replica of a c. 490 B.C. archer (at the Parthenon in Athens) testifies to German archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann’s painstaking research into the ancient sculpture’s colors. The original ...