The Acropolis Museum is now just months away from entering service in Greece's struggle with its most implacable cultural adversary. Its priceless treasures lie in marble halls, hidden from view in giant removal boxes. A reconstruction of the Parthenon sculptures, bathed in clear, natural Aegean light, stares out towards the Parthenon temple itself, 500 metres away. This may be just a building, but it is also a weapon in a polite, but bitter psychological war. The battle is between this, the new state-of-the-art Acropolis Museum, and the British Museum in London. The prize? Greece's holy grail...
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