Lasting for up to three years, and taking in Switzerland, Paris, and Rome, the high point of this secular pilgrimage for most travelers was Greece ... admirable sculpture as is still extant ...

(Mary Beard) "The whole Parthenon - not only the sculptures but the building - became emblematic, the symbol of new Greece. It still is, and we're still restoring it, and naturally, of course ...

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni led a ceremony Friday for the repatriation of three sculpture fragments – representing a ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon ... Greek government, embarked on a long-term project to strengthen interior walls, insert casts of some sculptures ...

expressed his opposition to any scenario involving the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece in a recent opinion piece titled "We lost our marbles over Ancient Greece." Wilson argues that ...

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

the Parthenon—the apotheosis of ancient Greek architecture—has been rocked by earthquakes, set on fire, shattered by exploding gunpowder, looted for its stunning sculptures and defaced by ...

Hurwit: We in the modern period are still under the thrall of the Romantic idea of Greece's golden ... years before the Parthenon was begun, and which was also loaded with sculpture with ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art ... Classical Greek sculptures. The $190 million glass-and-concrete complex, at the foot of the Acropolis and just over 300 yards from the Parthenon, has ...

ANCIENT OLYMPIA, Greece (AP) — New York's Metropolitan ... will boost its decades-long campaign for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures, taken from the Acropolis in Athens in the 19th century ...

It was named after the mythical king of Athens, Erectheus, and its imposing ionic structure still stands ... many artifacts from the Parthenon and other Greek works of art. Nanda was an amazing ...

Greek Culture Minister Lina Mendoni led a ceremony Friday for the repatriation of three sculpture fragments – representing a horse and two male heads – from the Parthenon temple on the ...