Rising to a height of between 60 and 70 meters above the city, the rocky flat-topped hill of the Acropolis is 300 meters ... to the glory of democratic Athens and its empire.

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 ...

The city's most important thoroughfare was the Panathenaic Way that ran from the foot of the Acropolis, past the Colonus Agoraeus to the Thriasian Gate. The streets of Athens were generally dirty ...

Holly D. Johnson As its name suggests, the Acropolis Museum – which resides in central Athens' Makrigianni district just below the ancient site itself – houses various archaeological findings ...

As the most famous part of the city, the Acropolis refers to the hill in the center of the city upon which Athens' most renowned ancient monuments – including the Herod Atticus Odeon ...

Educational documentary by Robiros Manthoulis Fotis Mestheneou and Iraklis Papadakis shot under the archaeological guidance of Yiannis Miliadis Director of the Acropolis Museum who is also the ...

A mysterious example of ancient Greek graffiti may reveal the existence of a lost temple at the iconic Acropolis of Athens, a pair of researchers have proposed in a study. The Acropolis—an ...

The Acropolis is a sacred hill in the heart of Athens with the Parthenon at its peak. Beside it is a smaller temple known as the Erechtheion, named after Erechtheus, a mythical king of Athens.