U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of ...
This moment of new birth, perhaps the most important in art history, is newly documented as the Acropolis Museum celebrates the new year by opening three new galleries. Archaic Greek sculpture was ...
"We all understand that the Sculptures belong here and must return to Greece. And we should do this so that we can be proud of something." ...
The remaining five caryatids, which supported the portico of the temple, are held in the Acropolis Museum of Athens. Photograph by British Museum/Scala, Florence Having brought the statues and ...
In December, construction workers putting in natural gas pipelines near Athens found a Roman-era statue of the ancient Greek god Hermes buried upright in a brick-lined pit near the Acropolis of ...
Lying in a garbage bag, nothing suggested it was an invaluable relic. A marble statue of a woman, possibly dating back to the Hellenistic era, was discovered near Thessaloniki. The find has been sent ...
Visit the Acropolis Museum first, since that's indoors ... and once there was a huge ivory and gold statue of Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom and war, and the patron of Athens, that drew ...
This serene, open-air sculpture garden is a who’s who of ... National Archaeological Museum is superior to that of the Acropolis Museum. The curation may be old-fashioned, but the richness ...