A Chilean retiree, Enrico Tosti-Croce, who returned an ancient Greek marble fragment that his father, an Italian naval ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — In downtown Nashville, you’ll find a structure built for a Titan—a whole team of them in fact—but a few miles away stands a replica of a structure once built for a god. Deep ...

It was a rare sight on Athens' skyline, and it didn't last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in ...

An icon of ancient democracy, the story and significance of Athens’ Parthenon has been reinterpreted by numerous cultures. Joan Breton Connelly, author of “The Parthenon Enigma,” joins Jeffrey Brown ...

For the past 230 years or so, the story that was sculpted into the frieze of the Parthenon, the most influential building in the western world, has seemed fairly straight-forward, depicting a civic ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: If you're visiting during the scorching summer months, get up early and head to the base of the Acropolis before 8 a.m. Summer temperatures average in the high 80s and 90s, and ...

View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, showing the precisely executed fluting (or vertical grooves). Hand-carving these flutes after the erection of the columns was one of the most time ...

Parthenon, a popular Greek restaurant in Washington, D.C., was the first restaurant to be featured in Gordon Ramsay's Secret Service. Was Ramsay able to help the struggling business and turn things ...

From ill-thought renovation schemes to the latest row over the repatriation of the Parthenon marbles, this is not the first time the British Museum reckons with a custodianship crisis. An ...

"The Parthenon of Books" in Kassel. Photo: DPA. A Greek-style temple made out of banned books hopes to stir debate about censorship at the site of Nazi book burning in central Germany. It looks like ...

IT looks like something lifted straight from the hills of Athens, but this Greek-style temple stands hidden in the green ...

But a shocking discovery involving mummies has called the meaning of the 2500-year-old Elgin Marbles into question, archaeologist and NYU professor Joan Breton Connelly argues in her new book The ...