drawing on a century and a half of temple-building know-how. Moreover, the restoration team has confronted problems that their ancient Greek counterparts could never have contemplated. During the ...

On an Egyptian desert rock ridge west of Alexandria and between the Mediterranean sea and Lake Mariout is Kom el-Nugus, an ...

Archaeologists in Sicily have uncovered a rare gymnasium complex, featuring a lecture auditorium, in the ancient Greek city ...

In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been using the Classical temple as a storage ...

The assembly hall at the ancient Hellenistic city of Stratonikeia, also known as the “City of Gladiators,” is restored to its ...

This is one of the most intact ancient Greek temples still standing ... built in the 3rd century B.C., features breathtaking architecture and surrounding views that have made it a legendary ...

Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and theatre in the ... water and timber for building were scarce. That's why many Greeks sailed off to find new lands to settle.

One of central Athens' best preserved ruins is the Temple ... within Ancient Agora, this site was built between 460 and 420 B.C. and once served as a Christian church. Eventually, the building ...

Perhaps our greatest temple is the Parthenon at the centre ... He describes the features of Ancient Greek architecture including symmetry, and Greek ceramic art which has provided historians ...

The Seven Wonders of the World are often seen as the pinnacle of human architecture and the perfect form of engineering, that ...