A major push to renovate the Parthenon came in the 1890s when chief restoration engineer Nikolaos Balanos, under the auspices of the Greek government, embarked on a long-term project to strengthen ...

Evan Hadingham Inside the Parthenon, members of the Acropolis Restoration take delivery of the architrave stone. They are surrounded by repaired components incorporating new and ancient marble pieces.

Before the restoration team could begin, they had to take apart, block by block, and repair nearly every piece of the Parthenon. That's because early restorers, most notoriously a Greek engineer ...

Many collections of Parthenon statuary housed in the world ... of the sculptures owes much to the highly controversial restoration carried out in the 1930s, in which aggressive cleaning methods ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the ... Today, the Greek government is overseeing a massive restoration effort. Although the edifice cannot be ...

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 ...

There, in the 1980s, artist Alan LeQuire created a full-sized reconstruction of Athena Parthenos now housed within the city's ...

When the Parthenon was completed in 432 B.C.E ... Museum and the National Museum of Denmark collaborated on a digital reconstruction of South Metope IV, imagining how the work once appeared ...

The conference centered on efforts to return the Parthenon Sculptures, also known as the Elgin Marbles, to Athens. The British Museum's impending reconstruction is seen as an opportune moment for ...