Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Greece has welcomed the return of ancient artefacts from the Acropolis, furthering a campaign to press the British Museum to hand ...

Best known for its ancient architecture and balmy clime, the city of Athens, Greece is currently blanketed in inches of snow, with temperatures dipping into the negative digits. The city has not seen ...

The regional archaeological museum of Sicily has shipped a fragment from the Parthenon temple to the Acropolis Museum in Athens, where it will remain on long-term loan. Some have interpreted the move ...

Located just north of the Parthenon high above the city within the Acropolis complex, the Erechtheion was constructed between 421 and 406 B.C. as a place for Athenians to worship Erechtheus, the ...

Emanuel Comino has spent five decades fiercely advocating for the return of the Parthenon marbles to Greece. The marbles are ...

The next owner of this seven-bedroom neoclassical home in the center of Athens will live in the shadow of the gods. The house, listed earlier this month for €12.8 million (approximately US$13.85 ...

I vowed to see the Parthenon on this, my fourth visit to Athens, and my friend Cathy and I arrived a few days before our cruise and booked a tour of the Acropolis, on one of the highest hills of the ...

They are the fragments of the ancient world that have long been a bone of contention between Greece and Britain. And now the Parthenon Marbles have come under closer – and brighter focus – thanks to a ...

The United Nations world heritage body, UNESCO, wants Greece to stop installing concrete paths around the iconic Parthenon atop the Acropolis in Athens. Much of the work has been completed, intended ...

Visitors crowd around a Lego model of the Acropolis hill at the Acropolis museum in Athens (Picture: Reuters) Lego enthusiast Ryan McNaught has fashioned a Parthenon from the classic plastic building ...