Standing before the Parthenon at sunrise, you realize no photo or history class could prepare you for this moment.

Located just north of the Parthenon high above the city within the Acropolis complex, the Erechtheion was constructed between 421 and 406 B.C. as a place for Athenians to worship Erechtheus, the ...

The Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is one of the best-known buildings of the ancient world. Yet, despite its renown, it turns out that for more than 2,000 years, we may have been calling the ...

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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 ...

While visitors to the Acropolis Museum in Athens can still see the 2,500-year-old caryatid statues that once graced the porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis, the marble figures are ...

The Caryatids, a clique of statuesque ladies that once supported the roof of the Acropolis’s Erechtheion, stand more beautiful than ever after a three-year makeover. The ancient treasures were ...

The Acropolis of Athens and its monuments are universal symbols of the classical spirit and civilization and form the greatest architectural and artistic complex bequeathed by Greek Antiquity to the ...

Holly Johnson is a travel journalist who has traveled to more than 60 countries and been on 40 cruises. Drawing on her time in Athens as a repeat Greece visitor, Johnson curated a thorough list ...

Four marble maidens from ancient Greece have just gotten a facelift. Using a specially designed laser, conservators have labored since 2011 to strip away the black grime that encrusted the statues.