Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum ... Harrison urged him to use his privileged position to get hold of drawings and copies of Greece’s great monuments.

A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the ... the rate of today’s craftsmen. And the Parthenon’s original laborers had the benefit of experience, drawing on a century and a half of temple-building ...

Housing more than 4,000 works of art, the New Acropolis Museum in Athens ... sculptural works that include 247 feet of the original Parthenon frieze. Lord Elgin, the British ambassador to ...

These include about half of the surviving fragments of a 160-meter-long (520-foot) frieze from the Parthenon Temple, which dates back around 2,500 years. They currently sit in the collection of ...

The Parthenon Marbles, also known as the Elgin Marbles, are a frieze of sculptures that once ... party politicization of these appointments and draw on the widest pool of talent," including ...