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Article: Acropolis Museum: missing the marbles.(WORLD)(Parthenon Marbles)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- October 16, 2007
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Byline: Nicole Itano Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
ATHENS -- It was a delicately choreographed feat of engineering. At 9 a.m. Sunday, a crate containing one of the world's most precious historical antiquities - part of the Parthenon frieze - temporarily took flight, soaring hundreds of feet in the air as it was moved for the first time from the Acropolis to a new resting place.
The 2.3-ton marble frieze was the first of about 4,500 sculptures and artifacts that will be transferred over the next three months from the Acropolis to a bold new glass-and-concrete museum at the foot of the famous hill. But the new museum will be defined as much ...