This is the first image of the Doric temple after the discovery of the Daguerreotype in August 1839, two months later by Pierre-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière.
The image also includes the small mosque in its only surviving pH๏τographic imprint.
Interior view of the Parthenon, famous temple on top of
The first pH๏τograph of the Acropolis and its history
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