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 ...

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 ...