AESTHETIC TREASURE
ACROPOUS IN DANCER FOUNDATIONS SAPPED ATHENS. Feb. !I5 Specialists in architecture and construction were hastily mobilised in Athens to-day to save the aesthetic treasure the Acropolis from the greaiiest menace of destruction since ancient times. Torrential rainfall during a recent storm has laid bare the whole block of foundations and revealed that for centuries they have been insidiously sapped by the forces of nature.
Conservation work was begun at once, and a committee of experts iis preparing a far-reaching plan for the harmless disposal of rain water which may in future cascade off the Parthenon, bathe the Caryatides onr patter against the Propylean gate.
' On the Acropolis, a hill, just outside Athens, are the ruins of ancient buildings which are regarded as tho world's most perfect pieces of architecture. Erected in the B.C. period, most of them were ruined in a Venetian bombardment in 1687.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXI, Issue 21742, 6 March 1934, Page 9
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