The Acropolis of Athens is one of the most visited world sites, but what stood on top of it before the construction of the ...

the defensive walls encircling the Acropolis, and the so-called “scattered members,” the thousands of complete, nearly complete, and fragmentary pieces of stone and marble that lie all over ...

The walls of the acropolis form a trapezoidal enclosure on the other three sides. "During this period, the site of the old city was transformed into an acropolis, and the city expanded into 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 ...

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.

The small marble temple on the rock’s southwest corner dedicated to Athena Nike (Victorious Athena), built between 427 and 424 B.C., was the first building on the Acropolis to be restored.

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 ...