Who’s Buried in Largest Tomb in Northern Greece? New Finds Raise Intrigue

Archaeologists excavating a massive burial mound in northern Greece have uncovered this female figurine, one of a pair sculpted from marble.

PHOTOGRAPH BY CULTURE MINISTRY VIA AP

A relative of Alexander the Great may lie in the 2,300-year-old burial site.

Heather Pringle

for National Geographic

PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Caryatid Statues, Restored, Are Stars at Athens Museum

 

Using specially developed laser technology, conservators at the Acropolis Museum stripped centuries of grime from the Caryatids statues, among the great divas of ancient Greece.

Eirini Vourloumis for The New York Times

Acropolis Maidens Glow Anew

By LIZ ALDERMAN JULY 7, 2014

 

ATHENS — For 2,500 years, the six sisters stood unflinching atop the Acropolis, as the fires of war blazed around them, bullets nicked their robes, and bombs scarred their curvaceous bodies. When one of them was kidnapped in the 19th century, legend had it that the other five could be heard weeping in the night.