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Acropolis Museum opens
Athens :: TX :: USA | 4 months ago
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The new Acropolis Museum opened its gates on Sunday to hundreds of visitors eager to explore its vast collection of sculptures and artefacts from ancient Greece. The museum holds more than 4,000 ancient works, including some of the best surviving classical...
Tags: New Acropolis Museum, Greece
Greece opens Acropolis Museum, wants marbles back
Athens :: Greece | 4 months ago
Credibility Greece inaugurated its long-delayed Acropolis Museum on Saturday with the prime minister calling for the Classical Parthenon marbles, held in Britain for 200 years, to be repatriated. The 2 500-year-old sculptures were removed from the Parthenon in 1806...
Tags: New Acropolis Museum, Athens, Greece Updated, Parthenon Temple, Parthenon Marbles, Classical Parthenon, Britain, Bernard Tschumi, elgin marble, culture minister
New Acropolis Museum highlights missing marbles
Athens :: Greece | 4 months ago
Credibility Athena.Britain's envoy, Lord Elgin, pried them off the building in the early 1800s while Greece was still an unwilling part of the Ottoman Empire. Facing bankruptcy, he eventually sold the artworks to the British Museum, where they have been displayed...
Tags: Greece, New Acropolis Museum, Parthenon Temple, Parthenon Marbles, Elgin Marbles, British Museum
Greece displays repatriated antiquities
Athens :: Greece | 5 months ago
Credibility Ancient bronze vessels and other items, repatriated from Germany, Belgium and Britain, are displayed at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens on Tuesday. (Associated Press) Greece unveiled hundreds of looted antiquities on Monday, saying they...
Tags: Germany, Britain, Greece, Belgium, New Acropolis Museum
Greece retrieves Parthenon marble piece
Athens :: Greece | 11 months ago
Credibility The piece, which was part of a frieze decorating the temple's inner colonnade, bears an inscription saying it was taken from the Acropolis in Athens on February 16, 1943, when Greece was occupied by the Germany-led Axis powers. Martha Dahlgren, who inherited...
Tags: Greece, New Acropolis Museum
Acropolis museum opening delayed to '09
Athens :: Greece | about 1 year ago
Credibility The opening of a new, ultra-modern Acropolis museum located below the ancient Athens landm ark has been pushed back until February or March next year, Culture Minister Michalis Liapis said Tuesday. "We had said the museum would open its doors towards...
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