The mystery of the Parthenon’s lighting system, and how ancient Greeks illuminated the statue of Athena, is finally solved in ...

You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history ...

The new research shows how light would have spilled into the Parthenon's doorway at specific times of the year, which would ...

And the great statue of Athena Parthenos inside the Parthenon ... In fact, entasis is the Greek word for tension or swelling. The kinds of optical refinements that we detect in the architecture ...

The famed statue of Athena had already been removed ... It occurred during the War for Independence, the Greek struggle to gain freedom from the Ottoman Empire. Archeologists estimate that ...

She was worshiped all over the Greek world, but her primary cult ... His first acts were to erect a wooden statue of Athena and to found the Panathenaia, a festival in honor of the goddess.