The sanctuaries and temples of ancient Olympia are some of the oldest and most important in all of Ancient Greece.

And it was thus as much a temple to Athens and the Athenians as it was to their patron goddess, Athena herself. Because it played such a crucial role in the Athenians' construction of themselves ...

The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

Dedicated to Athena Parthenos, or "Athena the Virgin," the magnificent Parthenon stands atop the Acropolis, on the site of another lost temple to Athens' patron goddess. Little is known about this ...

The small marble temple on the rock’s southwest corner dedicated to Athena Nike (Victorious Athena), built between 427 and 424 B.C., was the first building on the Acropolis to be restored.

We give a picture of a ruined temple in Athens erected in honor of Jupiter, the most powerful of all the gods of the ancients. The greatest temple of Athens was that of Jupiter Olympus. It is at the ...

While only 15 of the original 104 columns of the temple are still standing, this landmark is one of the most common associated with Athens and worth a look and a few photos. Visitors to the Temple ...

Researchers have found the oldest known evidence of lead pollution dating to around 5,200 years ago in ancient Greece.

While there are many more acropoleis (the plural of "acropolis") in Greece, it's this one in central Athens that garners ... including the Parthenon, the Temple of Athena Nike and the Erechtheion.

A group of researchers from the National Technical University of Athens has conducted an ambitious geophysical study to unravel the hidden mysteries beneath the Temple of Olympian Zeus, one of the ...