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Where Is the Parthenon? by Roberta Edwards

By Roberta Edwards

Notice the ruins of the Parthenon, the most well-known and gorgeous areas within the world!

Athens, Greece, is better identified for the Parthenon, the ruins of an old temple accomplished in 438 BC to honor the goddess Athena. yet what many folks don't be aware of is that it purely served as a temple for a pair hundred years. It then turned a church, then a mosque, and through the top of the 1600s served as a storehouse for munitions. whilst an enemy military fired hundreds of thousands of cannon balls on the Acropolis, one without delay hit the Parthenon. a lot of the sculpture used to be destroyed, 300 humans died, and the location fell into smash. this present day, viewers proceed to flock to this international recognized landmark, which has develop into a logo for historical Greece, democracy, and smooth civilization. comprises black-and-white illustrations and a foldout colour map!

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