We can only imagine how glorious the Parthenon must have appeared in the middle of the fifth century B.C., with worshippers gathered in its towering central sanctuary paying tribute to a 40-foot ...

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... have now been removed to the climate-controlled Acropolis Museum, their places on the Parthenon taken by exact replicas.

Here are 12 facts about the Acropolis of Athens ... One of these losses is a gigantic statue of Athena once located inside ...

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 ...

Evan Hadingham Inside the Parthenon, members of the Acropolis Restoration take delivery ... once the home of a massive ivory-and-gold statue of Athena, a gigantic collapsible crane turns on ...

Many significant ancient Greek temples are found not only in Greece but also in other countries that were once part of the ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the goddess Athena ... of the Acropolis Museum, which will showcase more than 4,000 ancient statues, friezes ...

Located atop Acropolis Hill in Athens, the Parthenon is one of the most famous ... While the original statue of Athena Parthenos has been lost, the Parthenon remains an architectural marvel ...

Key exhibits include a relief of Athena Nike, several carved statues from Erechtheion ... a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous travelers said the Acropolis Museum was one ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis, was stripped of its gold which was then struck into coins. This was the only known example when King ...

In 480 BC, Persian forces led by King Xerxes I burned down the city of Athens, as well as the Acropolis, in what is called “the Persian Destruction of Athens.” The destruction of the great city took ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece ... the 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion. Travelers say the ...