Parthenon

In the historic center of Athens the Acropolis Museum welcomed this August’s full moon on Saturday, August 29, with a special Tango event under the Parthenon. The musical journey started at 8:30 pm and lasted a bit past its scheduled 11:30...

The Greek Culture Ministry in cooperation with the Simon Fraser University’s Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies in Canada are launching new apps for smartphones and tablets that can be used by demanding audiences during their visit to museums and other...

During the yearly meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, a team of researchers claimed that the attic of the millennia-old Greek temple of Parthenon might have been the ideal place for Athenians to hide their vast cash reserves around 434 BC. After all, nobody would...

Explore TripAdvisor's list of top ten historic sites and landmarks worth visiting in Greece, based on travelers' votes. Get your ticket, fasten your seatbelt and follow us on a quick but refreshing trip to Greece. Acropolis Acropolis is one of the most famous and...

The Acropolis Museum in Athens, Greece, is becoming six years old today, June 20, and has already welcomed 8 million visitors from Greece and across the globe. The museum celebrates its birthday with a series of events. Since June 20, 2009,...

"This is an incredible construction, using ingenious solutions to insurmountable engineering and construction problems," said Professor of Civil Engineering Department of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Kyriazis Pitilakis describing the Acropolis and the Parthenon. The question of how the Acropolis structures and...

The latest issue of German magazine Der Spiegel features a controversial cover juxtaposing Chancellor Angela Merkel with a group of Nazi officers standing in front of the Parthenon in an old black and white picture taken during Germany's occupation...

Chairman of the International Association for the Reunification of the Parthenon Sculptures, David Hill, during an interview with the Greek service of the Australian SBS state radio network, expressed his belief that the Parthenon marbles -- now on display...

With the recent release of the crime-thriller "Two Faces of January," the cast and crew are opening up about location shooting, which spanned from Greece to Turkey. In a featurette released by Studio Canal, stars Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen and...

Robin Williams, during an interview with the Greek newspaper Proto Thema in December 2011, had expressed his admiration for Greece. Williams said that he had come to Greece and visited almost all the islands with a boat. Commenting on the beauty of the...