For most of the Parthenon's years as a mosque, Muslims conducted their worship beneath numerous Christian paintings and the large mosaic of the Virgin Mary. Some additions the Turks made even ...

The Turks turned the Parthenon into an ammunition dump. During a Venetian attack on Athens in 1687, a cannonball set off the Turkish munitions, blowing apartthe long walls of the Parthenon’s ...

Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... they say it will cost £40,000 to build a place to put them in—As the Turks gave them to our Ambassador in his Official capacity ...

Before the restoration team could begin, they had to take apart, block by block, and repair nearly every piece of the Parthenon. That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the goddess Athena—still dominates the skyline of the Acropolis in Athens. The structure, originally painted in ...

Parthenon sculpture: Centaur and Lapith (made ... it was a neglected ruin in a diminished Athens ruled by the Turks. But in the 1820s and 30s, the Greeks fought for, and won, independence, and ...

The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an ... it was a neglected ruin in a diminished Athens ruled by the Turks. But in the 1820s and 30s, the Greeks fought for, and won, independence ...