Stiftung Archäologie, Munich The partial color reconstruction of Athena is based on a c.490 B.C. sculpture of the Goddess from the pediment of the Temple of Aphaia on the Greek island of Aegina.

That would likely be the remote, unspoiled Greek Island of Milos, the "Island of Colors" made famous in fashion shoots by Jil Sander, Dior, and Louis Vuitton. That striking background is the ...

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The city was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 A.D., and as a result, many of the statues were preserved with some colors intact, such as a statue of the Greek goddess Artemis. However ...