It’s hard not to be awestruck standing in front of the Parthenon marbles. The collection of sculptures adorned the famous archeological site, which was originally built as a temple to Athena in ...

In 1687, the Venetian Army shelled the Acropolis and blew up the Parthenon, where the Turks had been storing gunpowder. Then in 1802, the British Lord Elgin had some of the remaining sculptures ...

The Parthenon was one of the most famous monuments of the ancient world. But today its columns are crumbling to dust. Its current state isn’t due to wear and tear from exposure to the elements over ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. - In one of our scrapbooks is a picture from 1972 of our then-teenage daughters, Jerilyn and Debra, hiking up the hill of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece, toward the Parthenon at its ...