(This video is no longer available for online streaming.) For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosion, ...
Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age’s master builders Evan Hadingham View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, ...
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Step Into a Painstakingly Recreated 3D Model of the Parthenon, Now Restored to Its Ancient Glory
Today, the Parthenon is a broken-down rectangle of grand marble columns, and its interior is largely vacant. But when the temple was constructed between 447 and 438 B.C.E., designed in part by the ...
ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in years. Greek residents and visitors in recent weeks ...
View of a partially restored inner column on the Parthenon. The Acropolis Restoration team has held extensive public and academic debates on the extent to which the ruins should be restored, and to ...
Before the restoration team could even start, they had to correct these mistakes by taking apart, block by block, much of the Parthenon. Paraschi took on the Herculean task of working out the original ...
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