Parthenon sculptures come to life

The British Museum in London is home to the Elgin Marbles, many of the finest sculptures from the Parthenon in Athens. It's an impressive display, but what we see today is a lot different than they looked back in their day.

Today, you see white marble carvings, but originally they were brightly painted, so that people could make out the scenes when they were high up on the Parthenon.

A new film on permanent display in the museum shows how these would have been. Using computers, they virtually reconstructed the sculpture, reuniting the body of the scene with the missing heads (now in Copenhagen). Then they applied the color.

The results are amazing! The battle scenes come to life with vivid emotion and fear. You get an entirely different impression than looking at the physical carvings.

See BBC NEWS | Fear and fury among the Marbles

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Our Greece trips for women begin in Athens, and you can see the Parthenon from the hotel’s rooftop pool. I’m always on the lookout for interesting, relevant items, and will post whatever I find in our Greece category.
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