Athens' Parthenon was adorned with colour.

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      GREECE
    • Abstract:
      The article reports that a team at the British Museum in London, England, has found the first evidence of coloured paints used on the Parthenon temple in Athens, Greek. Giovanni Verri, a researcher at the British Museum, developed an imaging technique that he used to trace ancient pigments on the temple.