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 ...

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Michael Scott uses the latest 3D scanning technology to reveal the historical secrets of ancient Athens and tell the story of ...

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 ...

The Caryatids, a clique of statuesque ladies that once supported the roof of the Acropolis’s Erechtheion, stand more beautiful than ever after a three-year makeover. The ancient treasures were ...

While visitors to the Acropolis Museum in Athens can still see the 2,500-year-old caryatid statues that once graced the porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis, the marble figures are ...

The architectural masterpiece contains the remains of several ancient buildings but is in bad repair WITH it massive marble pillars and commanding location above the ancient city of Athens, the ...

Michael Scott uses the latest laser scanning technology to reveal the historical secrets of ancient Athens. In an adventure that involves descending into an underground aqueduct, crawling through an ...