It was with this in mind that Argentinian artist Marta Minujín decided to create a replica of the Greek Parthenon using 100,000 books that are still banned across the world today. As part of the ...

Since then, the replica arch has been displayed around ... The Marbles, which once formed part of the exterior decorations of the vast Parthenon temple, are now equally divided between Athens ...

This identity is reinforced with the Parthenon, a full-scale replica of the one found in Athens. Although Nashville's Parthenon was only meant to be temporary – it was built for the Tennessee ...

On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon, dedicated to the warrior goddess Athena. Yet even as ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

There, in the 1980s, artist Alan LeQuire created a full-sized reconstruction of Athena Parthenos now housed within the city's Parthenon replica. Bringing marble to the Acropolis was a monumental task.

After conservative UK leaders refused to send Parthenon fragments home to Greece, a new government has ushered 'constructive' negotiations over a return. https://p.dw ...