View of the northern facade of the building, and the marble landing it stands on. Full view of the building, from the processional ramp. The north facing facade of the Temple of Athena Nike (Athena ...

About 200 practitioners of the ancient Greek religion paganism gathered among the ruined temples at the Acropolis on Sunday, and prayed to Athena to stop the removal of sculptures and pieces of the ...

Archeologists have discovered a lost ancient Greek temple dedicated to the goddess of war, after translating a newly found case of 2,500-year-old graffiti. Among over 2,000 remnants of ancient Greek ...

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ATHENS, Greece – ATHENS, Greece (AP) — After a decade-long facelift, the ancient Greek temple of Athena Nike is back up, patched up and unfettered on the Acropolis. The slender marble building first ...

Studies show that the ancient Greek temples could have astronomical intentions – but on what scale? When I was a little girl, I would pester my grandfather with the same question every time we ...