Monday, May 6, 2013

How the National Archaeological Museum (Athens) saved its treasures in WWII

http://www.lifo.gr/mag/features/3728
Article translated from a Greek magazine that details how heroic curators and scholars buried the statues and vases of the museum beneath the floor in the days before World War II broke out. Thus, the antiquities were saved. Too bad they didn't have the Trojan gold.