The ancient Greeks worked subtle curves into the columns, architraves ... workers cut 100,000 tons of marble from Pentelicon. The quarry remains a rich source of marble even today.

Commonly referred to as the cradle of Western civilization, Greece is rich with archaeological treasures, from the marble columns of the ... peninsula from the Greek mainland.

Three different designs of ancient Greek columns. The Greeks believed that ... Sculptors carved lifelike marble statues and decorated them with brightly-coloured paints. To make them even more ...

The vertical columns and marble slabs still radiate with the grandiosity of the ancient Greek civilization. The National Archaeological Museum has a vast collection of ancient Greek artifacts.