Athens Day 3.1
Just got back from the Acropolis museum. I have never been around so much carved marble and pottery. Some interesting stuff in there were the gold coins and daggers. The entire museum sits atop an ongoing archaeological dig. They seem to be digging up some cemetery and religious ground. Pretty cool. Sorry to say, there was no photography allowed inside. So all we have is some pics from the outside. The upper level was a make-up of the Parthenon with most of the marble that had been broken or destroyed. Some rich dude from England, named Lord Elgin, ripped most of the stuff off in the 1800's. We did see the 5 of the 6 Columns of the Athena temple that were being cleaned up with some laser. The other one is in the British Museum. It must have been crazy transporting all their spoils. My biggest amazement might be how all this marble is transported. Today, we have huge cranes with cables to move all this stuff around. I have yet to see how they did it back then.
Next, we are off to the port to get our tickets to Santorini. Tomorrow we are off to Delphi.
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