The Parthenon’s base was 23,028 square feet (about half the size of a football field) and its 46 outer columns were some 34 feet high. A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, ... but also of the material properties of surfaces.

The following essay has been adapted from the new book The Parthenon Marbles Dispute: Heritage, Law, Politics (Hart / Bloomsbury, 2023) by Alexander Herman, director of the Institute of Art and ...

Step Into a Painstakingly Recreated 3D Model of the Parthenon, ... In general, de Lara says to Tanner, temples “acted as museums, safeguarding objects of both material and emotional value.” ...

Learn how architects utilize material authenticity to reduce waste and enhance the character of contemporary spaces.

Stock image showing the Parthenon temple in the Acropolis of Athens, Greece. The ancient temple was built in the mid-5th century B.C. and dedicated to the goddess Athena.

You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history and 3D computer modeling. University of Oxford archeologist Juan de ...

The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise. The Parthenon was deliberately dark, research suggests.

NPR’s Scott Detrow talks to assistant curator at Nashville’s Parthenon Museum about her idea to repatriate hundreds of pre-Columbian artifacts back to Mexico.

Today, the Parthenon is a broken-down rectangle of grand marble columns, and its interior is largely vacant. But when the temple was constructed between 447 and 438 B.C.E., designed in part by the ...