Sure, there are Byzantine churches tucked among the tightly knit apartments and the Parthenon looms into view around nearly every corner. But come expecting a living postcard and you’ll be in ...

The Italian news agency Ansa reported a growing sense of optimism about the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece. It noted that there have been intensified discussions between Athens and ...

The Acropolis’ Parthenon in recent years ... of the ancient temple to a Christian one is that there were no radical changes in its exterior. The pediments were not covered but left as is. The fear of ...

“Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis thanked Italy and Sicily for the return of the fragment and a year later, the Holy See, on the initiative of Pope Francis, donated another three Parthenon ...

Only those fragments deemed critical for reuniting the Parthenon’s artistic and historical narrative – such as portions of the frieze, pediments and metopes – are expected to come back to Athens.

The plaster replicas of the Parthenon Marbles found in Naos are direct casts of the original sculptures, which adorned the pediments of the Athenian Parthenon dating back to 438 BC. The originals ...