Acropolis and Lycabettus hill Live Cam

The history of the Parthenon of the Acropolis of Athens is long, with great moments, when democracy, science, philosophy and fine art were flourishing at the time the temple was created, and times as dark as those when a British ambassador vandalised the monument's finest decorative parts. Despite the unique historic, symbolic and cultural value of the monument, there have been most frustrating acts of looting against it. Read more about the stealing of the Parthenon's Marble frieze: a crime committed by a British ambassador in the 19th century, and shamelessly continued by the British Museum today.