COGNICURRENT

Dec 31 • 05:23 UTC • 🇪🇸 Spain • ABC

From the Parthenon to the sidewalks of London: the second life of the Pentelic quarries

The article explores the hidden Pentelic quarries in Dionysos, Greece, from which the marble for the Acropolis was extracted 2,500 years ago.

#pentelic quarries #parthenon #greece #marble #acropolis

Read Original Back to Feed

📡 Similar Coverage

🇵🇱 Poland Mar 19 • 13:20 UTC

A Piece of History at the Bottom of the Aegean Sea. Scientists Have Discovered Something Unique

Wprost

🇵🇱 Poland Mar 6 • 05:00 UTC

Greece will make a valuable monument at the foot of the Acropolis available to tourists. The revitalization will begin soon

Rzeczpospolita

🇱🇹 Lithuania Mar 20 • 08:29 UTC

Another piece of the Acropolis found in the wreck of the famous ship

Lrytas

🇬🇷 Greece Feb 15 • 10:54 UTC

The Acropolis 'disappears' in African dust – Otherworldly images

To Vima

🇬🇷 Greece Mar 19 • 11:35 UTC

Upgrade works at the archaeological site of Kerameikos and the Ancient Agora of Athens

Naftemporiki

🇬🇷 Greece Feb 26 • 18:27 UTC

Prokopios Pavlopoulos: Contribution to the legal documentation of Greece's compelling arguments for the definitive 'repatriation' of the Parthenon Sculptures

Naftemporiki