In this March 28, 2014 photo, conservator Costas Vassiliadis uses a laser to clean a Caryatid at the Acropolis museum in Athens. “The laser beam hits the black crust formed on the surface of the ...

Some of Greece's most celebrated beauties are getting a facelift. And after almost 2,500 years it's not surprising they're looking a little weather-beaten. The Caryatid statues, which until the late ...

A woman poses for a photo in front Caryatid statues that prop up the porch of the 5th century B.C. Erechtheion temple, as at the background is seen smoke from a fire , during a hot, windy day at ...

Caryatid sculptures are treated with a dual-wavelength system in a public viewing area at the Acropolis Museum in Athens. Scientists have set up an advanced laser laboratory in a public area of the ...

While visitors to the Acropolis Museum in Athens can still see the 2,500-year-old caryatid statues that once graced the porch of the Erechtheion temple on the Acropolis, the marble figures are ...

Professor Katherine "Kathy" Schwab is fixated on hair. Not just any hair mind you. No, Schwab, who teaches Art History at Fairfield University, is fascinated by the long, wavy, thick, textured hair ...

In the past two and a half thousand years, the temples of the Acropolis have suffered fire, bombing and earthquake. Now, scientists are trying to save them from a new modern enemy: pollution. Standing ...

For 2500 years, the six sisters stood unflinching atop the Acropolis, as the fires of war blazed around them, bullets nicked their robes, and bombs scarred their curvaceous bodies. When one of them ...

Sometimes research into ancient history requires the use of a curling iron. That's what Katherine Schwab discovered when she turned her attention to the hairstyles of the Caryatids, the six marble ...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — They’re some of Greece’s most celebrated beauties. And after nearly 2,500 years, it’s perhaps only fitting that they’re getting a face-lift. The Caryatid statues, which until the ...