The weather breaks and we are able to climb up the steps to the top of the Acropolis and-there it is-one of the most beautiful buildings in the world. The Parthenon in mostly gone but what is left still inspires tremendously. A great deal of it was stolen by Lord Elgin and is now in the British Museum in London. The Greeks want it back but the British have been arguing that the Greeks have nowhere to keep it and display it safely so now they have built the –New Acropolis Museum. It’s a very cleverly designed museum with the top room displaying all of the many statues, freezes and metopes (relief carvings) that the Greeks still have on an actual size copy of the Parthenon. The ones that the British have are in reproduction plaster cast-pressures on the British Museum now. We fly to Cairo.
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