Once the political hub of ancient Athens, the Acropolis ruins tower over modern ... shops selling everything from antique treasures to souvenirs. Also tucked away along Plaka's winding streets ...

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 ...

This extremely rare gold stater of Athens, depicting Athena ... in the Parthenon on the Acropolis, was stripped of its gold which was then struck into coins. This was the only known example ...