It was unearthed under the junction of two modern streets at the southern end of the Acropolis hill, a few dozen yards from the marble Odeon of Herodes Atticus — an originally roofed Roman-era ...

A new study finds that extreme temperatures — mostly heat — are projected to kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe by ...

The Acropolis Museum located only 1,000 feet from the famed hill of the same name hosts some of the world's most important ...

Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters from east to west and 150 meters from north to south. Its first ...

The archaeological site of the Acropolis is getting new, hi-tech entrance gates and a welcome point aiming to improve visitor ...

Yet for Greeks with roots deep in the past, the Acropolis supplies a daily spiritual boost. A rich man I knew whose view of the hill was threatened by a high-rise apartment going up across the ...

The Acropolis is a sacred hill in the heart of Athens with the Parthenon at its peak. Beside it is a smaller temple known as the Erechtheion, named after Erechtheus, a mythical king of Athens.