U.S. News Insider Tip: Once you're inside the Acropolis Museum, look for the famous caryatids – a collection of marble statues that were replaced by copies on the Erechtheion for the purpose of their ...

Reporting from Athens — For advocates of the repatriation of marble sculptures removed from the Parthenon in the early 19th century and long housed at the British Museum in London, the new Acropolis ...

Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters from east to west and 150 meters from north to south. Its first fortifications ...

You step off the bus, and you think you know what you are going to see. You’ve seen the pictures, taken the rudimentary 8th-grade course on ancient Greece, and watched the movie “Clash of the Titans.” ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens will contain the world's most extensive repository of Archaic and Classical Greek sculptures. The $190 million ...

Situated on a rocky outcrop above Athens, Greece, the Acropolis is a citadel featuring some of the greatest architecture of the classical world. The most famous structure there is the Parthenon, a ...

NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro asks University of Missouri-St. Louis archeology professor Michael Cosmopoulos about the controversy over planned renovations to the Acropolis in Athens. There is a ...

ATHENS — For advocates of the repatriation of marble sculptures removed from the Parthenon in the early 19th century and long housed at the British Museum in London, the new Acropolis Museum is proof ...