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 ...
This is thought to be one of the earliest known photographs capturing a group of tourists on Athens's Acropolis, taken around the 1860s.
We continue our Acropolis tour by entering the sacred heart of Athens. See the temples of Nike, Athena, and the mysterious Erechtheion with its mythical scars and iconic Caryatids. Then, step inside ...
They are the fragments of the ancient world that have long been a bone of contention between Greece and Britain. And now the Parthenon Marbles have come under closer – and brighter focus – thanks to a ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Erechtheion, the ancient Greek temple held up by statues known as Caryatids, still stands on the Athens Acropolis.
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Graffiti etched into a rock outcropping millennia ago by a shepherd named Mikon may be a crucial piece of evidence confirming the nature of a hotly debated ancient structure on the Athenian Acropolis.
It’s much easier to build a new building,” says Vassiliki Eleftheriou, “than to rebuild an ancient one.” Eleftheriou, an architect by training, is director of the Acropolis Restoration Service, where ...