In all her time on the Parthenon restoration team, she's still amazed at one particular achievement of the ancients, their precision. CATHY PARASCHI: We have a joint on the step of the Parthenon which ...

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 ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — It was a rare sight on Athens’ skyline, and it didn’t last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in years. Greek residents and visitors in recent weeks ...

Before the restoration team could even start, they had to correct these mistakes by taking apart, block by block, much of the Parthenon. Paraschi took on the Herculean task of working out the original ...

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 ...

ATHENS, Greece — It was a rare sight on Athens' skyline, and it didn't last long: The Parthenon was without scaffolding for the first time in years. Greek residents and visitors in recent weeks ...