Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

South Metope IV of the Parthenon is one of many sculptures from the Parthenon in Greece that have been scattered across the ...

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The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior wa ...

These include about half of the surviving fragments of a 160-meter-long (520-foot) frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of ...

and marveled at the designs of Phidias and the new Parthenon. Athens had become the school of Greece. Pericles' was by now far too popular for his rivals to topple him as the city's leader.

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' ...

The Alexander The Great frieze The Harris Museum and Art Gallery has announced that the conservation for the Alexander Frieze ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum is an academic expert opposed to the return of antiquities taken ...