In 1687, when Venetian forces that were part of a Holy League against the Ottoman Empire raided Athens, the Ottomans converted the Parthenon into an ammunition store as well as a shelter for women ...

The Turks turned the Parthenon into an ammunition dump. During a Venetian attack on Athens in 1687, a cannonball set off the Turkish munitions, blowing apartthe long walls of the Parthenon’s ...

Detail from the western frieze of the Parthenon. British Museum, London Photograph by Josse/Scala, Florence In 1687, during a war fought between Venice and the Ottomans, the great monument was ...

The Venetians struck the first blow. In 1687, amid the Great Turkish War, Venice’s forces rained a fusillade of cannonballs on the Ottoman-held Parthenon in Athens, Greece. The Turks had been ...

More than 2,400 years after its construction, the Parthenon—the sanctuary to the ... remained largely intact until 1687, when a force of Venetians laying siege to invading Turkish troops ignited ...

It was partially destroyed during a Venetian bombardment in 1687, and in the early 1800s ... Fragments of the Parthenon are also in the Louvre in Paris and in museums in Copenhagen, Munich ...