View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, showing the precisely executed fluting (or vertical grooves). Hand-carving these flutes after the erection of the columns was one of the most ...

Eventually, gunpowder the Turks had stored in the Parthenon ignited, blowing out 28 columns, damaging several internal rooms, and killing up to 300 people. In the ensuing century and a half ...

Although the Parthenon might appear to be geometrically straight and built from interchangeable parts, it is not. The ancient Greeks worked subtle curves into the columns, architraves, floors ...

Not so. The explosion demolished most of the Parthenon’s walls and columns, wrecking its architraves, triglyphs, and metopes. After the blast, what remained of the Parthenon’s metopes ...

The Parthenon stands as an enduring symbol of ancient Greece and its democratic ideals. Perched majestically on the Acropolis ...

The Elgin Marbles, originally part of Parthenon and Acropolis of Athens. On display in the British Museum in Duveen Gallery. East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media.

The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an ... Around all four sides of the building, above the columns and easily seen by everybody approaching, was a series of 92 square relief carvings ...