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ATHENS, Greece -- After more than 3,000 years, can a city still hold any secrets?
I almost blushed as I put the question to Elena Korka, Greece's director of antiquities. I was sitting across from her overloaded desk at the Ministry of Culture. I never expected that her answer would lead me to the home of the city's ancient dead.See the full content of this document
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Athens Continues to Reveal Its Ancient Secrets
From almost the minute the modern, independent Greek state was founded in 1830, and set upon restoring the magnificent mountaintop that is Athens' Acropolis, the city has been giving up its secrets dig by dig. The process accelerated this decade, when Athenians -- suffering from decades of unfettered sprawl and nearly absent city planning -- used the impending 2004 Summer Olympics for two opportunit...
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