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Across the province of Drenthe stand dozens of hunebeds, giant stone tombs older than the pyramids of Egypt. They are the oldest monuments in the Netherlands. But the people who raised them, the hunebed builders, and…
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Imagine standing on the Acropolis in Ottoman times, in the year 1805 to be specific. It is the very spot where, in our Classical reconstruction, the Panathenaic procession once reached the Parthenon in its painted…
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It is one of the most repeated stories about the Acropolis. After the Ottomans took Athens, so the tale goes, they turned the Erechtheion, the elegant temple guarded by the six Caryatids, into a harem for the garrison…
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For more than two thousand years the Parthenon stood almost intact. It had survived as a temple, a church and a mosque, keeping its roof, its walls and nearly all its columns through war, fire and one empire after…
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Imagine standing on the Acropolis three hundred years ago. The Parthenon rises ahead of you much as it always has, but a slender minaret climbs from its southwest corner, and the call to prayer drifts out across the…
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We've just completed our next panorama in TimeLens: the Acropolis as it appeared during the Roman period, with the Temple of Rome and Augustus standing proudly alongside the Parthenon. This is a fascinating moment in…
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Imagine standing on the streets of lower Manhattan in the 17th century. The Dutch settlement that would one day become New York is alive with trade and voices, its harbour busy, its houses gathered along narrow lanes.…
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Imagine the whole of Athens in motion: horsemen and chariots, musicians, elders and young women, all making their way up to the Acropolis to honour the goddess Athena. This was the Panathenaic procession, the high point…
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As we are working on the fourth TimeSpot in Athens, we want to share more about our full plans for Athens. It is one of the most important historic cities in the world, yet so much of it has become difficult to imagine.…
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We just completed the TimeSpot for the Classical Acropolis, showing the Parthenon and Erechtheion completely restored as the Panathenaic procession reaches its apex. We have not only included the detailed Parthenon…
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Most historic places we visit today are fragments. A few standing columns, an empty square, foundations hidden in the grass. Turning that back into a place you can stand inside takes far more than imagination. Here is…
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Imagine standing in a vast marble courtyard in the centre of Athens. A hundred columns surround you, a long ornamental pool stretches away down the middle, and beyond it lie halls lined with thousands of papyrus…
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