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Today, the Parthenon is a broken-down rectangle of grand marble columns, and its interior is largely vacant. But when the temple was constructed between 447 and 438 B.C.E., designed in part by the ...
You can now get a sense of the awe-inspiring Parthenon in all its former glory thanks to a multiyear endeavor merging history and 3D computer modeling. University of Oxford archeologist Juan de ...
The Parthenon, a mid-5th-century temple atop the hill of the Acropolis, is dedicated to Athena, the Greek deity of wisdom and the patron goddess of Athens. Despite enduring damage, that ...
A new paper has been published in the Annual of the British School at Athens, however, that suggests that the roof was solid and the whole Parthenon was actually much darker and more ominous than ...
This finding that the Parthenon was a “dark and dim” space arrived through a 3D model Lara built which included simulations of the temple’s natural and artificial light. For starters, the ...
Second, there is no danger of the Parthenon marbles being out of public view. As a general rule, our world’s culture should be accessible to as many people as possible.
The debate surrounding the rightful place of the Parthenon Marbles, which were removed from the Acropolis, the site of the ancient complex of temples that overlooks Athens, by agents of Lord Elgin ...
Step Into a Painstakingly Recreated 3D Model of the Parthenon, Now Restored to Its Ancient Glory A researcher simulated the Athenian temple’s lighting conditions at different times of the day ...