Artnet

These Photographs of the Parthenon Covered by a Rare Snowstorm Like a Magical Ancient Wedding Cake Are Going Viral

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 ...
Mansion Global

Neoclassical Home in the Garden of Athens’s Acropolis Museum Has Epic Views of the Parthenon

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 ...
Daily Mail

Brightening the past: Acropolis Museum in Athens 'restores' Parthenon friezes to their original colours by using digital technology

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 ...
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A Man Brought His Father’s ‘Piece of the Parthenon’ to Greek Officials. They Said It Was From an Even Older Temple in the Acropolis of Athens

When 77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce heard on the radio that Greece was fighting for marble sculptures from the Acropolis of Athens to be returned, he knew what he had to do. “When I ...
Christian Science Monitor

Germans to Greeks: Sell the acropolis, Parthenon, and Aegean Islands

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...
Metro

Lego Parthenon is proving more popular with tourists than the real thing

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 ...