While the ruins of the Parthenon appear plain white to the naked eye, a new app called "Chronos" from Greece's Culture Ministry allows tourists to see the ancient Greek site with bright colors. And, ...

This video shows the Acropolis of Athens from above with a clear view of the Parthenon and the surrounding ancient ruins. The aerial perspective highlights the rocky hilltop setting and the scale of ...

Time is not kind to buildings—even the greatest ones like Cambodia’s Angkor Wat, England’s Roman Baths, and Greece’s Parthenon. But now we get a view into what experts believed seven marvelous ...

If you have ever visited an ancient ruin only to leave unimpressed by piles of stones and maybe a Doric column or two, Expedia has just the thing to rekindle your interest. The travel site partnered ...

The coronavirus has put travel on hold for the foreseeable future, but there are still ways to see the world and scratch that travel itch. Expedia commissioned artists to create GIFs showing how seven ...

View of one of the 46 outer columns of the Parthenon, showing the precisely executed fluting (or vertical grooves). Hand-carving these flutes after the erection of the columns was one of the most time ...

Even in their ruined formed, the glory of the Parthenon in Greece and the Luxor Temple in Egypt draw myriad tourists every year. However, it can be hard to imagine what these buildings looked like in ...

Ever since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off and crowbarred many of the carvings that ringed the top of the Parthenon and sold them to the British Museum to ...

As modern Greeks undertake to reconstruct the Parthenon, largely using stone material from the site's ruins, a question naturally arises: How did ancient Greeks construct massive temples and other ...

View of a partially restored inner column on the Parthenon. The Acropolis Restoration team has held extensive public and academic debates on the extent to which the ruins should be restored, and to ...