The ancient hilltop citadel is the nation's most popular archaeological site. Atop the Acropolis ancient hill, tourists visit the Parthenon temple during a heat wave on July 20, 2023 in Athens, Greece ...
ATHENS, Greece — Walking along the broad pedestrian street that runs along the base of Athens’ famed Acropolis Hill, visitors can now enjoy something not seen in decades: an unobstructed, ...
Best known for its ancient architecture and balmy clime, the city of Athens, Greece is currently blanketed in inches of snow, with temperatures dipping into the negative digits. The city has not seen ...
The Acropolis and Parthenon are the heart of ancient Athens and a must-see for any visitor to Greece. In this video, we walk ...
They are the fragments of the ancient world that have long been a bone of contention between Greece and Britain. And now the Parthenon Marbles have come under closer – and brighter focus – thanks to a ...
The next owner of this seven-bedroom neoclassical home in the center of Athens will live in the shadow of the gods. The house, listed earlier this month for €12.8 million (approximately US$13.85 ...
I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...
It’s much easier to build a new building,” says Vassiliki Eleftheriou, “than to rebuild an ancient one.” Eleftheriou, an architect by training, is director of the Acropolis Restoration Service, where ...
Visitors crowd around a Lego model of the Acropolis hill at the Acropolis museum in Athens (Picture: Reuters) Lego enthusiast Ryan McNaught has fashioned a Parthenon from the classic plastic building ...
The marble sculptures on display in the British Museum are at the center of a 200-year-old restitution dispute between Greece and the United Kingdom. Could they finally be returned? There's a Greek ...