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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...