The mystery of the Parthenon’s lighting system, and how ancient Greeks illuminated the statue of Athena, is finally solved in ...

The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise.

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and ...

The Parthenon is probably one of the most iconic examples of Greek architecture. This ancient temple, once dedicated to the ...

You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history ...

Contrary to Enlightenment-era belief, ancient Greece’s Parthenon was actually “dark and dim” on the inside. A new study ...

Stiftung Archäologie, Munich The partial color reconstruction of Athena is based ... excavation of ancient Greek and Roman sites was bringing forth great numbers of statues, and there were ...

Athena, Hera and Aphrodite ... according to modern scholars. Ancient sculptors were very much interested in color as well as form; the white marble statues we admire looked stunningly different ...

The playwright Euripides introduces us to the various forms of Ancient Greek architecture ... Inside was a 12-metre-high gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena. All of our important buildings ...