Pausanias mentions that it burned in front of the statue of Athena. After the brief conquest of Byzantium by the Crusaders during the Fourth Crusade (1204), the Parthenon Christian church was looted ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena. The sculpture, which has remained out of public view for centuries, will be on display ...

Her calves and her left hand were discovered sometime in 1882 to 1883 east of the Parthenon, and the the rest of the statue with its base were found in 1886 in the so-called ... carrying a calf on his ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture of the Greek goddess was acquired by Halsted A&A Foundation in 2023 ...

With an owl in the palm of her hand, a cloak adorned with a gorgon’s head and a warrior’s helmet upon her swept hair, Athena, as depicted in a Roman statue from the first century C.E., is a ...

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Yet, against the odds, the Halsted A&A Foundation has managed to secure an extraordinary piece: an early 1st-century CE Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena. The statue is set to be unveiled ...

Key exhibits include a relief of Athena Nike, several carved statues from Erechtheion, the head of a statue of Alexander the Great and a gallery with various Parthenon artifacts. Many previous ...

Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (Noa) using AI narration. Listen to more stories on the Noa app. Ever since the early 19th century, when Thomas Bruce, seventh earl of Elgin, sawed off ...

An ancient Roman statue of the Greek goddess Athena, hidden from public view for nearly 300 years, is resurfacing in Chicago. The 1st-century C.E. sculpture has been acquired by the Halsted A&A ...