deep inside the acropolis these earlier buildings have now been discovered. here, a team of archaeologists has tunneled its way to an ancient tomb. so, you got it dug away, you think ? yeah. all right, well, let's do it. it's pretty complete. a little bit of it stayed behind there, but not too bad. boy, it's a big piece of jade. feels like it's got an indentation on the bottom. it's probably an ear flare. along with the burial was a hoard of precious jade. in tombs like these, maya kings were often buried with special offerings to accompany them on their voyage to the world of the dead. archaeologist william fash. jades can tell us specifically about what he was wearing the day he went to the other world. this one in particular is a nice example of a human figure. these four jades with human figures were the central pieces of the jade collar that he wore when he was placed on the slabs in the center of the tomb. there are also pieces that represent ear flares or ear rings actually that the individual wore. the men wore earrings in maya society, too. and the w

pericles used the resources or, some contemporaries argued, abused them to rebuild the acropolis andrown it with the parthenon. the bold simplicity of the building, with its strictly harmonized repetition of the most basic geometric shapes, has had an unparalleled influence on the world's architecture. the creators of the parthenon, including the sculptor phidias and the architect ictinus, adapted the traditional temple form, but refined it. they created an impression of subtlety and lightness, despite the building's scale and the massiveness of its marble surface. the sculptural decorations employed the skills of hundreds of craftsmen, setting a new standard in art. it took less than a decade to erect this monument to athenian pride. it was built on the ruins of a temple destroyed by the persians, partly glorifying the greeks' victory over their greatest enemy. to their subsequent cost, the athenians took more than their share of the benefits of persian defeat. they may have been democratic, but to fellow greeks like the corinthians and spartans, they appeared arrogant and domineeri

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