The entire Parthenon Frieze is now completely accessible thanks to a new website from the Acropolis Museum that shows the entire frieze, which ran along the outside of the Parthenon.
The frieze was likely created by the great ancient Greek sculptor Phidias and his students between 443-437 BC. Originally 160 meters (524 feet) long, 128 meters of the frieze (420 feet) survive to this day.
The majority of the stunning sculpted panels of the Parthenon Frieze are housed in the British Museum in London, but the rest are displayed in the Acropolis Museum in Athens and other museums, including the Louvre.
The pieces of the frieze that are currently in London were some of the items that Lord Elgin had chipped away from atop the Acropolis in the early 19th century.
It is estimated that he looted some 247 feet of frieze from the Parthenon; those sculptures are now commonly referred to as the “Elgin Marbles,” or “Parthenon Marbles.”