On arriving in Athens, the first sight these young tourists would look for was the Acropolis and its crowning glory: the pillared Parthenon ... The new Acropolis Museum of Athens, which opened ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens ... and Paris-based architect who designed the museum. In the lower level galleries, sculptures by Phidias, Alcamenes ...

the head of a statue of Alexander the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous travelers said the Acropolis Museum was one of the best museums they'd ever visited ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon ... Museum, where they remain. The designer of the new museum, Bernard Tschumi, has crowned his building with a glass gallery that ...

Member states contributed money and warships, and the Athenian empire grew powerful under the famed general Pericles, who spearheaded the new ... Acropolis Museum, their places on the Parthenon ...

Among of the new trustees appointed to the British Museum ... The Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are a frieze of sculptures that once adorned the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.

A UNESCO World Heritage site, the Parthenon on the Acropolis in Athens is a temple built in the fifth century BC in homage to the goddess Athena. The new Acropolis Museum, inaugurated in 2009 ...

Greece has welcomed the return of ancient artefacts from the Acropolis ... that the Parthenon sculptures are at the core of its ancient heritage, while supporters of the British Museum maintain ...

The Elgin Marbles, originally part of Parthenon and Acropolis of Athens. On display in the British Museum in Duveen Gallery. East Pediment depicts the birth of Athena. (photo credit: EWY Media.

The ecumenical "donation" by the Vatican furthers a campaign to press the British Museum to hand back a collection of sculptures taken from the ancient site in Athens more than 200 years ago. View on ...