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

a ruin, turning the idea of the colonnaded paris style into the stunted columns from an antique acropolis felled by time. before this work was installed, de plateau was blocked by a court injunction. buren's work became the subject of a memorable cultural battle as only the french can wage. the conservative newspaper of paris roared its disapproval, calling the work cultural hooliganism. ultimately people were attracted to the new landmark as a congenial place to be. a moving example of postmodern architecture is this museum in moenchen gladbach, germany, specifically designed by hans hollein to house avant-garde art. references to the greek citadel to the skyscraper, and to the cathedral are all successfully combined here. what has been built in the eighties with the moenchen gladbach museum is more the museum as a temple or church, substituting the museum as a place for another god. and art is the new religion of today, where you don't understand but you trust. that's what the religion is about. you have to trust because it's in the museum. anselm keiffer's massive winged book captures

planned a new west entrance in the form of a greek portico based on the entrance to the athenian acropolis but altered its intercolumn nation and added features from other athenian buildings. the main purpose was to provide housing for the door keepers of the senate and the house while freeing up space for the committee rooms but also to improve the pedestrian approach to the capitol from the mall. the massiveness of his six greek doric columns 32 feet high vibed with a slightly taller corinthian capped columns in the loggia dictated by thornton's original choice. the sandstone walls of the capit capitol's wings were already painted white but latrobe's watercolor depicted his in the stone's natural light brown color. he may have intended it to remain unpainted in order to visually separate the capitol's two distinctly different historical sources, roman and greek. instead of the open bal strayeds atop the house and senate wings, latrobe planned solid ones for his center building. he designed a monumental statue of athena as american liberty for its central stepped podium, a reference to th