Travel Weekly’s Kate Rice is on vacation in Greece with her family. Her second dispatch follows. Click to read Kate’s first dispatch. To step foot on the Acropolis is to wonder: Who were these guys?
Archaeologists have made an important discovery while exploring Salamis, a small island off the coast of Greece near Athens where a now-sunken city once stood. Scientists found a partially submerged ...
We may earn money or products from the companies mentioned in this post. As an Amazon Associate, I earn from qualifying purchases. During a recent family trip to Greece, we had the opportunity to tour ...
An archaeological excavation in Greece has revealed the remains of an ancient monumental building replete with marble lion sculptures and intriguing gold artifacts, among other finds. The dig, which ...
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age’s master builders Evan Hadingham View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, ...
Because most of the elite had the benefit of a classical education, they naturally turned to ancient Greece and Rome for inspiration. Greece was the home of democracy, and Greco-Roman architecture was ...
Spurred by the design of Greek temples in the 5th century B.C., this architectural revival movement took hold in the 18th and mid-19th century. Inspired by a trip to Greece in 1758, British architect ...