The new Muslim rulers converted the Parthenon to a mosque, but according to written accounts from the mid-1600s, they made fewer changes to the building than the Christians had. For most of the ...

had turned the Parthenon itself into a mosque, complete with a minaret. Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687 ...

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 ...

Parthenon sculpture ... and it later became a mosque. By the end of the eighteenth century, it was a neglected ruin in a diminished Athens ruled by the Turks. But in the 1820s and 30s, the ...

The occupying Franks transformed the Parthenon once again in 1204, this time into a Catholic cathedral. Under the Ottoman ...

The Parthenon sculptures set out to present an ... and it later became a mosque. By the end of the eighteenth century, it was a neglected ruin in a diminished Athens ruled by the Turks.