Discover the ruins of the Parthenon, one of the most famous and beautiful places in the world Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena.
Includes black-and-white illustrations and a foldout color map.
Today, visitors continue to flock to this world famous landmark, which has become a symbol for Ancient Greece, democracy, and modern civilization.
Much of the sculpture was destroyed, three hundred people died, and the site fell into ruin.
When an enemy army fired hundreds of cannon balls at the Acropolis, one directly hit the Parthenon.
It then became a church, then a mosque, and by the end of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions.
But what many people don\'t know is that it only served as a temple for a couple hundred years.
Discover the ruins of the Parthenon, one of the most famous and beautiful places in the world Athens, Greece, is best known for the Parthenon, the ruins of an ancient temple completed in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena
