In 1959, beneath the bustling streets of modern Piraeus, Greece, workers drilling underground to install pipes stumbled upon a hidden treasure—a statue of the ancient world, waiting in the shadows.
Nearly eight feet of pure bronze, the “Piraeus Athena” emerged.
Tall and adorned in a weighty Greek robe, this was not a goddess of mere myth; she was a sentinel of war and wisdom, bearing marks of her time.
Crafted between 340 and 330 BC, and now kept in the hallowed halls of the Archaeological Museum of Piraeus.
