It’s hard not to be awestruck standing in front of the Parthenon marbles. The collection of sculptures adorned the famous archeological site, which was originally built as a temple to Athena in ...

The hills around Vari, 10 miles southeast of Athens, are etched with the musings of bored shepherds. The more than 2,000 graffiti (and counting) feature trireme warships, speeding horses, packs of ...

For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most iconic structure, completely free of scaffolding, but not for long. Since the ...

The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wall of ...

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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville’s Parthenon has been home to a small, brown ceramic dog for more than five decades, but how it got there is something that has long troubled staff members. The ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — Nashville’s Parthenon was never meant to be a permanent structure. So, why is it there? The Tennessee State Library and Archives has several materials documenting the ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and the patron goddess of Athens. Despite enduring damage, that masterpiece ...

NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to assistant curator at Nashville’s Parthenon Museum about her idea to repatriate hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts back to Mexico. It was Bonnie Seymour's first day on the ...

In the belly of Nashville's Parthenon, a ceramic figure of a hairless dog greets museum visitors with perked ears and a smile. Most of his story is unknown. An amateur archaeologist likely unearthed ...

Documentary maker David Wilkinson started The Marbles on a specific date, he tell us early in the film. It was March 25 2021 — the 200th anniversary of Greek independence from the Ottoman empire. That ...

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