In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been using the Classical temple as a storage ...

In 1801, Elgin negotiated what he claimed was permission from the Turks, who then controlled Athens, to remove statues from the Parthenon, claiming they were better off in Britain. The document ...

In its bid to claim the mantle as the Athens of the South, the city of Nashville constructed a life-size replica of the Parthenon for Tennessee’s centennial celebrations in 1897. Its architects ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) 3D modeling and lighting simulations indicate the Parthenon's interior was predominantly dim, contradicting previous assumptions of a brightly lit space. Direct ...

Trinity College Dublin provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. The Parthenon marbles are rarely out of the news. Most recently, Turkish officials have rejected claims by the British ...

The Parthenon was built between 447 and 432 BCE, and has long been considered “the refinement of refinement” in classical architecture. For centuries, historians have wondered how this ...

They were carved in 447-432 B.C. to adorn the iconic Parthenon, a temple of the city’s patron goddess Athena, on the Acropolis hill. Free-standing statues filled the triangular pediments that ...

A smattering of ancient 6 th century B.C. Greek graffiti reveals that a different temple likely existed where the Parthenon now sits. Clues from drawings made by a shepherd show there was likely a ...

LONDON, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The UK is working on a new arrangement with Greece through which the Parthenon Sculptures could be seen both in London and in Athens, British Museum chair George Osborne ...

LONDON, March 12 (Reuters) - The return of the British Museum's Parthenon Marbles to Greece is possible even if the two sides cannot come to an agreement over who owns the sculptures, a campaign ...

Deep in the heart of Music City stands the world’s only exact replica of the Parthenon. So, how did a famous replica of the Greek temple end up in Tennessee? “The Parthenon was built for the ...