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 ...

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.

The Parthenon, proudly standing on the Athenian Acropolis, is considered by many historians and archaeologists alike as the undisputed symbol of Athenian democracy and the cradle of Western ...