Located just north of the Parthenon high above the city within the Acropolis complex, the Erechtheion was constructed between 421 and 406 B.C. as a place for Athenians to worship Erechtheus, the ...
In this March 28, 2014 photo, conservator Costas Vassiliadis uses a laser to clean a Caryatid at the Acropolis museum in Athens. “The laser beam hits the black crust formed on the surface of the ...
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, center, Culture Minister Lina Mendoni, right, and President of the Onassis Foundation, Antonis Papadimitriou, stand in front of the of the Parthenon Temple, ...
Some of Greece's most celebrated beauties are getting a facelift. And after almost 2,500 years it's not surprising they're looking a little weather-beaten. The Caryatid statues, which until the late ...
When was the Acropolis of Athens built? In the second half of 5BC large scale development got underway. That was when the most famous buildings on the Acropolis – the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the ...
ATHENS, Greece — The Acropolis sculptures survived on the ancient hill in Athens for 2,500 years despite war, weather and looting. But their remaining days there are numbered. Three hundred marble ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister has inaugurated new facilities at the Acropolis in Athens designed to make the historic site fully accessible to disabled visitors. Kyriakos Mitsotakis ...
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