The marbles previously made up around half of the ... a permanent move of the Parthenon Sculptures.” To receive the best stories in your inbox every day, click here to register for one or ...
Finally in 1803, the huge collection of marbles was packed up into about two hundred boxes, which were then loaded onto wagons and transported to the port of Piraeus to await their passage to England.
(Video embedded below.) The core problem was devising ways to sort, lift, place, and dump marbles in their correct positions without losing their marbles—figuratively and literally. Starting ...