A 525-foot frieze wrapped around the top of the exterior ... A few years after the Parthenon restoration began, University of Pennsylvania scholar Lothar Haselberger was on a field trip exploring ...

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum ... of the sculptures owes much to the highly controversial restoration carried out in the 1930s, in which aggressive cleaning ...

An exhibit that will most likely be missing is the so-called Elgin Marbles, 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 ...