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MuseumsSite Name: Cycladic Museum at Athens
Country: Greece
NOTE: This site is 7.621 km away from the location you searched for.

Region: Central Greece Type: Museum
Nearest Town: Athens near Syntagma  Nearest Village: Athens
Latitude: 37.976060N  Longitude: 23.742170E
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bat400 visited on 23rd May 2011 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 4 Access: 5 In addition to the Cycladic Art and artifacts, the museum's collection of classical Greek art and artifacts (including fine examples of arms and armor) is diminished only by the National Archaeological Museum a mile away.

Kuba visited - their rating: Amb: 5 Access: 5

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Average ratings for this site from all visit loggers: Ambience: 4.5 Access: 5

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : Female figurine (Vote or comment on this photo)
Museum in Attica/Central Greece.
The Cycladic Museum of Athens has the best representations of the Cycladic marble figurines. The Cycladic civilization flourished from 3200 BCE and lasted up to the Minoan convergence in 2000 BC.

Many idols were of unknown origin since most of the sites were looted. The sites that gave reach artifacts are: Saliagos (Antiparos), Kephala (Kea),Delos,Keros,Syros and Phylakopi (Milos). The Cycladic civilization is considered the forerunner of the first European civilization. These unique idols are very different from the art produced by the Egyptians and the Mesopotamians. The cycladic plastic arts have modern, geometrical, highly abstract approach and have two dimensionality. Most of the idols were found in the graves and represent a fertility Goddess.

The museum also has a substantial collection of later Greek art and artifacts.

Museum website.

Note: Exhibition: The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C., runs until Jan 2011
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Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : On the left we have a male warrior or a hunter and on the right a female folded arms type cycladic idol. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : Close up view of the Cycladic female idol. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : Site in Attica/Central Greece Greece: close up view of the idol (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : Another view of the tosser. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : Cycladic figurine of a seated man with his right arm holding a cup and raised as if proposing a drink. Made of Parian white marble in the third millennium BCE.

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : A modern looking female Cycladic idol. Note the incised triangle as a representation of the gender.

Cycladic Museum at Athens
Cycladic Museum at Athens submitted by Antonios : Cycladic female figurine the folded arms type 2900 BCE.

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Exhibition: The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C. by Andy B on Friday, 15 October 2010
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The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C.

The 'forgotten civilisations' of Neolithic Europe and their ties to ancient Greece are the subject of a temporary exhibition currently on display at the Cycladic Art Museum in central Athens, entitled "The Lost World of Old Europe: The Danube Valley, 5000-3500 B.C."

Organised by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University in collaboration with the National History Museum of Romania in Bucharest and with the participation of the Varna Regional Museum of History in Bulgaria and the National Museum of Archaeology and History of Moldova in Chisinau, the exhibition brings together more than 200 neolithic artifacts owned by 22 museums in Romania, Bulgaria and Moldova.

Parallel with the main exhibition, the Museum of Cycladic Art and the ministry of culture and tourism have organised a second exhibition on "The relations between Neolithic Greece and the Balkans" presented alongside the first for comparative reasons. This includes 90 exhibits from Greek Neolithic sites of the same period and explores the similarities and differences between Greece and the Balkans during the 5th and 4th milleniums BC.

The organisers explore a little-known period of human history, noting that the area of southeastern Europe had seen the growth of highly sophisticated societies with advanced technology that disappeared abruptly and mysteriously at around 4000 B.C. for reasons as yet unknown.

Among the most impressive of the exhibits are remarkably modern-looking figurines with human form, some excellent quality, brightly coloured ceramic vases, various metal objects and the world's largest single store of Neolithic gold objects found in an ancient cemetery in Varna.

Goulandris Foundation president Sandra Marinopoulou stressed in a press conference that visitors to the exhibition will gain a fascinating insight into the history of SE Europe 7,000 years ago.

According to Cycladic Art Museum Director Nikolaos Stambolidis, Greece's closest neighbours were "participants" in the cultural product arising from this part of the world from the Neolithic period and onward.

"These two exhibitions come to shed light on the rich past of a region around the Danube and the northwestern coast of the Black Sea during the 3rd and 4th pre-Christian millennia. This exhibition presents a forgotten part [of history] that we must remember without borders but only on geographic terms," he noted.

According to Dr. Dragomir Nicolae Popovici of the National History Museum of Romania, it also marked the first time that such an exhibition "that is a major chapter of European history" was organised, while Dr. Aleksander Minchev of the Varna Archaeological Museum Ancient Art department stressed that it was a chance to view "the birth of European culture".

The parallel exhibitions are taking place under the aegis of the Greek foreign ministry as part of its presidency of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organisation and will run until January 10, 2011. (ANA-MPA)

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Rare ancient jewels found by coldrum on Saturday, 03 October 2009
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Rare ancient jewels found

ARCHAEOLOGISTS on the Greek island of Crete have unearthed the 2,900-year-old tomb of three women buried with jewels of surprisingly advanced skill, culture officials said on Friday.

The tomb in the ancient town of Eleutherna, near the modern city of Rethymno in northern Crete, held gold necklaces and medallions decorated with lion heads and the forms of ancient gods, excavation supervisor Nikos Stambolidis said.

'The jewels are of a style that appeared in the Hellenistic Era (many centuries later),' said Stambolidis, director of the Cycladic Museum in Athens.

'We had no knowledge that this level of craft existed earlier,' he told AFP.

The elaborate nature of the tomb indicates that its three occupants, two of whom were adolescents, were likely priestesses or princesses.

A number of offerings including scarabs, amber seals and earthenware were also found in the burial chamber which was two metres high.

The town of Eleutherna is believed to have reached its peak in the Geometric Era around 3,000 years ago. Excavation in the last 25 years has so far yielded over 500 items of clay, metal and ivory including sculptures, tools and weapons.

One of the most prized sculptures of the Louvre Museum in Paris, a limestone female statue called the Lady of Auxerre, is believed to have come from Eleutherna. -- AFP




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