But while the Parthenon was dedicated to the goddess upon its completion in 438 B.C., scholars speculate about other aspects of its early use. For example, because the structure housed the Delian ...

His surprising, perhaps even heretical, theory suggests that “Parthenon” may not have originally referred to the structure we know today—which is sometimes called the Great Temple of Athena ...

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 ...

Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary ... housing models of the statues found in the original structure as well as an impressive art collection. Travelers praise ...

By imaging the live cells of the common fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster over several days to analyze changes in the cells during the last stages of development, the researchers found a transient ...

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 ...

Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its conversion into a church. Paradoxically, it was more important ...