Soar over the ancient temples of Greece with this breathtaking drone footage. Experience the majestic Parthenon, the Temple ...

the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that Turkish soldiers removed 520 blocks of marble from the Parthenon ruins to create makeshift defenses ...

But when a Greek architect, Nikolas Balanos ... around 150 years after completion of the Parthenon. The gigantic ruins testify to a project of grandiose ambition: it was never finished despite ...

The citadel contains several ancient buildings, most notably the Parthenon ... known examples of a traditional Greek meeting ...

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More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to ... The explosion reduced the sanctuary to near ruins. Today, the Greek government is overseeing a massive ...

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece ... of monuments and ruins built throughout the 5th century BC , including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike ...

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 ...

Marble; from the Parthenon, Athens Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon ... been able to look closely at Greek sculpture, and they were ...

The trip included the coastal city of Kalamata, the ruins ... the Parthenon and the Acropolis’ slopes. The rest of the day was free to visit other museums, stroll through the Athens Botanical Gardens ...

Since the 15th century, Greece had been ruled by the Ottoman Empire, whose troops had converted the Acropolis into a garrison, and whose sultan, Mehmed II, had turned the Parthenon itself into a ...