The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

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 ...

The Acropolis Restoration team has held ... of architecture at the National Technical University of Athens and a leading Parthenon scholar who had spent decades poringover every detail of the ...

Hurwit: "Acropolis" means the high point of the city. And since the buildings of classical Athens rarely reached higher than a storey or two, the Parthenon, which stands atop the Acropolis like a ...

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 ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners ... 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike ...

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

If Athens is a short stop on your Greece itinerary, don’t worry. This two-day planner contains everything you need to see and ...

An open-air museum filled with sites of antiquity, the Greek capital has a well-earned reputation for being a rewarding ...