[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The Turks stored gunpowder in the Parthenon once. It blew up.

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"The Turks stored gunpowder in the Parthenon once. It blew up."

They turned it into a mosque, then they stored gunpowder in it. Seems like an idea that keeps getting repeated in the islamic world.

[Verginius Rufus]

The Venetians were trying to capture Athens. They knew the Turks had stored gunpowder in the Parthenon so they deliberately targeted it until they blew the building up.