Tuesday 5/26/09
Today we went to the National Archaeological Museum in Athens and we spent almost all day there. The museum was huge and had an overwhelming amount of items excavated from sites around Greece. Information overload but very interesting!
Some of the items there were so old! There were lots and lots and lots of marble statues and marble grave markers. The Greeks really went to town when someone died and either put a lot of gold in the person's grave or carved elaborate marble statues and grave markers.
There were lots of those creepy heads without eyes. My parents used to have one of those creepy eye-less Greek head statues when I was really young and I remember having nightmares about it chasing me around the house. I've been looking for the exact one they had...haven't seen it yet! Maybe I'll find it in Rome.
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