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Ancient Greece Springs to Life
Smithsonian.com
9/22/2009
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.
Greece to ban gum and high heels from parts of Acropolis
www.monstersandcritics.com
5/14/2009
Athens - Greece is to ban chewing gum and high heels at parts of the Acropolis, saying they are inflicting irreparable damage on the ancient monument.
Should Britain return the Elgin Marbles?
www.thefirstpost.co.uk
2/13/2009
Cultural treasures from ancient civilisations belong in the places they come from. Museums in Sweden, Germany, America and the Vatican have already acknowledged this and returned items taken from the Acropolis. The British museum should follow suit and put an end to more than two centuries of bad feeling in Greece.
First Greek Mummy Once Led Privileged Life
Discovery.com
8/8/2008
The first evidence of artificial mummification in ancient Greece lies in a lead coffin at the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki, according to a Swiss-Greek research team.