For the first time in two centuries, visitors to Athens are being treated to a rare sight: the Parthenon, Greece’s most ...

For the first time since the 1970s, the Parthenon on the Acropolis is free of exterior scaffolding, offering visitors a ...

Janric van Rookhuijzen is a postdoctoral researcher at Utrecht University. The Acropolis of Athens counts among the world’s greatest architectural and artistic monuments. Visitors come to admire the ...

The Parthenon in Athens is scaffolding-free for the first time in 200 years, offering visitors an unobstructed view of Greece ...

The Acropolis of Athens, the rocky hill in the Greek capital that is home to the iconic Parthenon temple, is one of the world’s most visited and well-known archaeological sites – but new insights ...

Security guards and others say the extreme temperatures in Athens and at other historical sites are dangerous for them and for tourists. The employees are stopping work at noon at least for now. By ...

The world-famous Acropolis of Athens is to shut Wednesday afternoon after officials warned that temperatures in Greece are set to hit 43 degrees Celsius. Thousands of tourists face disappointment ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The flame that will burn at the Olympics is spending the night at the ancient Acropolis in Athens, a week before its handover to Paris 2024 organizers. During a lull in heavy ...

The project aims to restore and reinforce the monument, as well as to protect and preserve it from deterioration caused by ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks University of Missouri-St. Louis archeology professor Michael Cosmopoulos about the controversy over planned renovations to the Acropolis in Athens. There is a ...

A Romanian tourist was arrested at the Athens Acropolis Tuesday after allegedly trying to steal pieces of marble from the ancient Greek landmark. The 36-year-old man was caught after another tourist ...