Editing Acropolis of Athens (section)

===Independent Greece===
[[File:Francis Frith, The Acropolis, 1839–98, Albumen silver print, 15.2 x 20.6 cm, MoMA, 187.1972.png|thumb|The Acropolis (photo using albumen silver print) by 19th century photographer [[Francis Frith]]]]
After independence, most features that dated from the Byzantine, Frankish, and Ottoman periods were cleared from the site in an attempt to restore the monument to its original form, "cleansed" of all later additions.<ref>[http://www.nicholasreeves.com/item.aspx?category=Writing&id=281 Nicholas Reeves and Dyfri Williams, "The Parthenon in Ruins"], {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806054926/http://www.nicholasreeves.com/item.aspx?category=Writing&id=281|date=2009-08-06}}, ''British Museum Magazine'', No. 57, 2007, pp. 36–38. Retrieved 9 February 2013.</ref> The [[Parthenon mosque]] was demolished in 1843, and the [[Frankish Tower (Acropolis of Athens)|Frankish Tower]] in 1875. German [[Neoclassicism|Neoclassicist]] architect [[Leo von Klenze]] was responsible for the restoration of the Acropolis in the 19th century, according to German historian Wolf Seidl, as described in his book ''Bavarians in Greece''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.handelsblatt.com/english/historic-ties-the-bavarian-greek-renaissance/23503774.html?ticket=ST-1971567-H5cWlRHnrWscUT9llj96-cas01.example.org|title=Handelsblatt|website=www.handelsblatt.com}}</ref> 

Some antiquities from the Acropolis were exhibited in the [[old Acropolis Museum]], which was built in the second half of the 19th century.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Titi |first=Catharine |author-link=Catharine Titi |title=The Parthenon marbles and international law |date=2023 |publisher=Springer |isbn=978-3-031-26356-9 |location=Cham |at=52}}</ref>

At the beginning of the [[Axis occupation of Greece]] in 1941, German soldiers raised the Nazi [[Reichskriegsflagge|German War Flag]] over the Acropolis. It would be taken down by [[Manolis Glezos]] and [[Apostolos Santas]] in one of the first acts of resistance. In 1944 Greek Prime Minister [[Georgios Papandreou]] arrived on the Acropolis to celebrate liberation from the Nazis.