Day 77 Monday October 18th Athens and the Archeological Museum

Metro to the museum. We arrive at the opening time but find that they are on strike for 2 hours so we wait that out in the café across the street.
The displays of the finds at Mycenae make our visit to the actual site come alive. The Germans seem to have been pioneers for excavating a great many of the Greek archeological sites and, unlike the British, Turks and many others, didn’t loot the stuff but gave it to the Greek Government for free. Amazing amount of gold artifacts came out of Mycenae. A lot of the other stuff in the museum came from shipwrecks found during the last 200 years. Sadly there must be so much more that has been looted and or destroyed. We spend a long time in the museum but still just scratch the surface of what they have, it’s one of the best museums in the world of course.