Greeks Go for All the Marbles In Effort to Get Back Artifacts

ATHENS -- On Saturday, huge cranes will begin lifting ancient statues, carvings and architectural fragments off the Acropolis, down to a new museum built at the base of the most famous citadel in the world. For the vast majority of these stone remnants of the great age of Athens, it will be the f...
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Philip Kennicott

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