Located just north of the Parthenon high above the city within the Acropolis complex, the Erechtheion was constructed between 421 and 406 B.C. as a place for Athenians to worship Erechtheus, the ...

The Acropolis Museum located only 1,000 feet from the famed hill of the same name hosts some of the world's most important ...

When was the Acropolis of Athens built? In the second half of 5BC large scale development got underway. That was when the most famous buildings on the Acropolis – the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, the ...

In this March 28, 2014 photo, conservator Costas Vassiliadis uses a laser to clean a Caryatid at the Acropolis museum in Athens. “The laser beam hits the black crust formed on the surface of the ...

The Caryatids, a clique of statuesque ladies that once supported the roof of the Acropolis’s Erechtheion, stand more beautiful than ever after a three-year makeover. The ancient treasures were ...

Some of Greece's most celebrated beauties are getting a facelift. And after almost 2,500 years it's not surprising they're looking a little weather-beaten. The Caryatid statues, which until the late ...

Shuffling along, we had to carefully watch every step. The stone surface underfoot, so polished and shiny from centuries of visitors and inhabitants treading on the peak of this hill, makes it ...

The marble was picked up by Wiger-Angner's great-uncle in 1896 A retired Swedish gym teacher is the toast of Greece after returning a piece of sculpted marble taken from the Acropolis more than a ...