The Parthenon remained a temple for a millennium before Greece fell to the Christian ... and re-erect some of the colonnades lost in the 1687 explosion. Unfortunately, modern preservationists ...

Clues from drawings made by a shepherd show there was likely a temple older on the same site as the Parthenon before advancing armies destroyed it. The graffiti reveals that the temple was of an ...

For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at, set on fire, rocked by earthquakes, looted for its sculptures, almost destroyed by explosion, and disfigured by well-meaning renovations.