The Parthenon's function as a church, along with the Byzantines' reign, lasted another millennium until the Turkish Ottoman Empire captured Athens in 1458. The new Muslim rulers converted the ...
Providing a wealth of new evidence, Professor Kaldellis argues that the Parthenon became a major site of Christian pilgrimage after its conversion into a church. Paradoxically, it was more important ...
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For 25 centuries the Parthenon has been shot at ... It has gone from temple, to church, to mosque, to munitions dump. What could be next? How about a scientific search for the secrets of its ...
The Vatican has returned three fragments of the Parthenon sculptures to Greece ... including the leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, Archbishop Ieronymos. "My personal heartfelt wish is that ...