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30 January 2021 7:41am Did you know that you can visit an underground “museum” in Athens, featuring casts of the famous Parthenon sculptures, ancient amphorae, and funeral monuments, as well as some of the finest works of public art created by world-famous Greek artists? This “museum” is the Athens Metro, which acts as a journey through millennia and the fascinating history of Greek Art. In fact, the Athens Metro has been ranked among the top ten subways in the world because of the archaeological exhibitions and contemporary art installations hosted at a number of its stations. In a city as old as Athens, digging into the ground is literally uncovering history. So, when the construction of the Athens underground (Lines 2 and 3) began in 1992, the main obstacle facing engineers and construction workers was not digging through rock; rather, it was having to sift through history in a metropolis that’s over 3,000 years old. Thus, this significant transit project became also t

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