ATHENS, Greece -- About 1,500 years after Christian zealots vandalized the Parthenon's pagan sculptures, Greece's Orthodox Church on Wednesday formally blessed the new Acropolis Museum, set to open ...

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ATHENS, June 26 (Reuters) - Greece on Wednesday opened to the public an exhibition of more than 1,100 artefacts, from statues and table games to children's toys, found in an ancient Athens ...

ATHENS, Greece — Gods, heroes and long-dead mortals stepped off their plinths into the evening sky of Athens on Saturday during the lavish launch of the new Acropolis Museum, a decades-old dream that ...

ATHENS, Greece -- Gods, heroes and long-dead mortals stepped off their plinths into the evening sky of Athens on Saturday during the lavish launch of the new Acropolis Museum, a decades-old dream that ...

ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's new Acropolis museum will drop some scenes of a short film by director Costa Gavras after protests from the country's powerful Orthodox Church, the museum's director said ...

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Campaigners gathered at the British Museum in London on Saturday to renew calls for the institution to return its Parthenon Marbles to Greece. The ancient sculptures, which were removed from the ...