Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...

The Acropolis Restoration Project team faced a monumental puzzle—thousands of fragments from the Parthenon scattered across the Acropolis and others that had to be recreated because they were ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Ever since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off ...

One more cool detail – while you aren't allowed to actually go inside the Parthenon in Athens, visitors can enter and explore ...

Around 1800, Lord Elgin removed some of the sculptures from the ruins of the Parthenon in Athens, and a few years later put them on public show in London. For most western Europeans it was the ...