Do you think you know the Parthenon, Greece's ancient marvel? But do you know it well enough that it had a pool?

A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day, discovering that its interior ...

The Parthenon is probably one of the most iconic examples of Greek architecture. This ancient temple, once dedicated to the ...

Archaeologist Juan de Lara of Oxford University spent four years reconstructing the ancient temple’s lighting with a ...

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The Parthenon's interior has long been seen as a bright marble space, a new 3D model of the temple shows otherwise.

The Olympic flame still burns brightly in Ancient Olympia in the Peloponnese, where the modern-day games have their Greek ...

Previous studies of similar iconography suggest the Parthenon’s goddess statue was built ... During those days, the statue of Athena’s geographic location and angle caught the dawn’s ...

The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and the patron goddess of ... gold-and-ivory) statue of Athena housed ...

The light entered through the door of the temple on the morning of the day of the Panathenaeans, and was reflected in the statue and in the pools of water. Credit: Juan de Lara The Parthenon temple on ...