The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been ...

It had two large-scale pediments, each filled with ... a perfect harmony of part to part and of parts to the whole. Q: So is it fair to say that the Parthenon's beauty comes from such a formula?

This cross section shows how the Parthenon would have looked in antiquity identifies where the friezes (1), metopes (2), and pediments (3) seen in the following photos would have been located.

Progress in the negotiations for the return of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece was reported at a recent conference organized by the Greek community at the London School of Economics ...

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.