Athenians like to tell visitors that if you dig a hole anywhere in their city you find archaeological treasures.
That has certainly been true in the case of the construction of the New Acropolis Museum. Some believe that the site chosen, a densely built up area beside the Acropolis hill between the Plaka and Makrigianni districts, is where the city of Athens began.
No sooner had excavations begun than important finds began to surface. An ancient Christian village, a Roman site and a village contemporary with the Archaic finds from the Acropolis.
To accommodate the archaeology of the site, the museum is supported by pilings (visible on the right of this picture), driven into the ground where they will do the least harm to walls, wells, chambers and streets that date back about 4,000 years.
Approaching the main entrance of the New Acropolis Museum, visitors can look down into this "well" to see some of the ancient village. But that is only the beginning…. Ferne Arfin, UK for Visitors
That has certainly been true in the case of the construction of the New Acropolis Museum. Some believe that the site chosen, a densely built up area beside the Acropolis hill between the Plaka and Makrigianni districts, is where the city of Athens began.
No sooner had excavations begun than important finds began to surface. An ancient Christian village, a Roman site and a village contemporary with the Archaic finds from the Acropolis.
To accommodate the archaeology of the site, the museum is supported by pilings (visible on the right of this picture), driven into the ground where they will do the least harm to walls, wells, chambers and streets that date back about 4,000 years.
Approaching the main entrance of the New Acropolis Museum, visitors can look down into this "well" to see some of the ancient village. But that is only the beginning…. Ferne Arfin, UK for Visitors