The Temple of Athena Nike. Credit: Troels Myrup, Flickr, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Standing on a bastion at the very entrance to the imposing Acropolis Hill of Athens stands a masterpiece of the Greek ...
Knossos Palace is south of Heraklion on the island of Crete. 6- Sanctuary of Delphi Looking for ancient Greek landmarks? Visit the Temple of Apollo. The Sanctuary of Delphi is one of the most famous ...
The Priest Saint Zacharias took her into the Holy of Holies, the holiest part of the Jerusalem Temple. God alone dwelt in the Holy of Holies, where the Theotokos was kept until age 12 in preparation ...
In 356 B.C.E., a man named Herostratus slipped into the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, Turkey, and set fire to its wooden roof, reducing much of the giant structure—which the Greek writer and ...
The Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, Türkiye is nothing more than ruins today. But in its heyday, it was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. The first Greek temple ever to be constructed ...