ARCHAEOLOGY

THE PARTHENON BY ANY OTHER NAME?

he Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis is one of the best-known buildings of the ancient world. Yet, despite its renown, it turns out that for more than 2,000 years, we may have been calling the temple by the wrong name. “I knew that scholars didn’t really understand why it’s called the Parthenon,” says Utrecht University archaeologistJanric van Rookhuijzen, “so I started looking into a

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