When the Athens Acropolis was a village in a castle

The monuments on the Acropolis of Athens and any work carried out on the Sacred Rock always tend to draw attention. We saw this happening again with the interventions to facilitate wheelchair access, which sparked controversy among experts concerning the impact of this work. Yet the president of the Friends of the Acropolis Society, honorary ambassador George Savvaidis, believes that most of the public, Greek and international, knows very little, if anything, about the Acropolis' more recent history, from the early 19th century, when the modern Greek state was established, to the present.

This dearth of public knowledge on the modern history of Greece's top archaeological site, including restoration work and other interventions that have been carried out, their philosophy and purpose, and the techniques that were applied, is addressed in a new book (in Greek) published by...