Ancient Greece Springs to Life

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Ancient Greece Springs to Life

Post by Shirleypal » 09-25-2009 01:21 PM

When the builders of the original Acropolis Museum first broke ground in Athens in 1865, archaeologists sifting through the rubble discovered a headless marble statue buried since the Persian Wars in the early fifth century B.C. Twenty-three years later, the head was identified and the world beheld one of the great treasures of antiquity, the Kritios Boy. Today the sculpture is on view in spectacular modern digs: the New Acropolis Museum, which opened to international fanfare on June 20, 2009, replacing its predecessor with a monumental space ten times the size.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-a ... -Life.html

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