This photo, taken around 1990, shows a front view of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. The Acropolis in Athens, Greece, is an outcrop of rock used in ancient times as a religious center. Under the fifth-century statesman Pericles, the time of the Golden Age of Athens, the temple dedicated to the goddess Athena, the Parthenon, was built.

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