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 ...

This has been easier said than done. Tens of thousands of original pieces exist, some scattered around the Acropolis, others around the world, and still others lost forever. Whatever pieces the ...

The acropolis, awesome and aloof on its limestone mesa above hectic modern Athens, is so integral to the texts of our history books—and the subtexts of our imaginations—that it is one of those ...

The Acropolis was built in the late 5th century ... you'll see part of its original frieze and a relief. It's breathtaking, ...

The team has inventoried and measured thousands of marble fragments scattered across the Acropolis. Korres plans to place each salvageable chunk in its original position, while new marble from the ...

The Parthenon Sculptures will be returned to Greece, Nikolaos Stambolidis, the general director of the Acropolis Museum, says.

Rebecca Ann Hughes covers travel, culture and food in Europe. The Acropolis is consistently inundated with tourists, with as many as 23,000 visitors clogging up ... [+] the complex on some days.