Best known for its ancient architecture and balmy clime, the city of Athens, Greece is currently blanketed in inches of snow, with temperatures dipping into the negative digits. The city has not seen ...

I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...

The next owner of this seven-bedroom neoclassical home in the center of Athens will live in the shadow of the gods. The house, listed earlier this month for €12.8 million (approximately US$13.85 ...

U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of their ...

They are the fragments of the ancient world that have long been a bone of contention between Greece and Britain. And now the Parthenon Marbles have come under closer – and brighter focus – thanks to a ...

When 77-year-old Chilean engineer Enrico Tosti-Croce heard on the radio that Greece was fighting for marble sculptures from the Acropolis of Athens to be returned, he knew what he had to do. “When I ...

Visitors crowd around a Lego model of the Acropolis hill at the Acropolis museum in Athens (Picture: Reuters) Lego enthusiast Ryan McNaught has fashioned a Parthenon from the classic plastic building ...

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