Athens, Greece: National Archaeological Museum - Rick Steves’ Europe Travel Guide - Travel Bite

More info about travel to Athens: www.ricksteves.com/europe/gree... The National Archaeological Museum in Athens is the single best place on earth to see ancient Greek artifacts. Strolling through the chronologically displayed collection - from 7,000 BC to AD 500 - is like watching a time-lapse movie of the evolution of art. You'll go from the stylized figurines of the Cycladic Islands, to the golden artifacts of the Mycenaeans, to the stiff, stoic kouros statues of the Archaic age...to the David-like balance of the golden age, to wet T-shirt, buckin’-bronco Hellenistic, and finally, to the influence of the Romans. #ricksteveseurope #ricksteves #athens
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[@bw3348]

A great museum, a treasure trove of Greek art

[@MrThoughtfox]

It’s incredibly vast. I had hours there and couldn’t finish it. Just halls and halls of artefacts.

[@kamelyacoub504]

Saw you shahid museum

[@katherineprongos3929]

This is the omphalos of Greek museums, the center of the universe.

[@kamelyacoub504]

It's abeautiful muséum like
Saw you shahid muséum befor

[@maximhollandnederlandthene7640]

Wonderful museum.
I missed the part of fashion and clothes they did wear in the past.

[@dailypunch6249]

Crazy how much we have considering the majority of this stuff is over 2,000 years

[@InspiredbyAisha]

PERCY JACKSON please do more videos on heroes Greek gods and their weapons

[@ReplayButtonMolester]

Hey I've seen the Warrior Vase :))

[@GreeceCombination]

macedonians were greeks Rick thank you :))

[@dagob5484]

I thought Macedonians were Macedonian ... And Nubians were nubian

[@MrNixtt]

@@dagob5484 then go and learn history again. Or go and ask an archaeologist in your area. He will tell you

[@angrybirdo]

Dagob No, Macedonians were Greek just like th Athenians, Spartans, Thessalians, Cretans, Corinthians, Miletians etc were Greek. They had a Greek culture, they had Greek names, they spoke a Greek dialect, they worshipped Greek gods and most importantly they self identified as Greek. In fact it was the Macedonians who spread Greek culture to the world. The notion that Macedonians were not Greek comes from the ultranationalist ideology prevalent in the recently founded country of North Macedonia, comprised of a Slavic nation that claims a large part of Greek history and territory. The Slavs actually reached Macedonia some 1000 years after Alexander the Great

[@tasosvogiatzis3214]

@@dagob5484 And you are Bulgarian wannabe Greek

[@IkelosEU]

@@dagob5484 Greece was seperated into City/States. Athenians,Spartans,Minoans, Macedonians etc. all of them where hellenic (greek) tribes. read some history before writing

[@xysgsvvxvdv8315]

😊😊

[@Alen4382]

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[@blackburn9898]

Where alexios statue

[@CroMarduk]

rik ti si odličan turistički vodič, al ozbiljno

[@user-hp6ii1tr1l]

لديه قطع اثريه تعود الى المتحف اليوناني

[@anwarrasool3425]

hi sir my name is shahid i am from pakistan and i am belong where we found many thing related with greek of alexender so i need more information about alexender the great .because poeple spoiling that history .

[@rtrs9776]

In ancient Greece there were several greek tribes: Athenians,Spartans,Corinthians,Boetians,Macedonians.Alexander the Great was Macedonian,Macedonians being doric greek tribe speaking doric greek.Thats why every macedonian artifact has inscriptions in the greek language.Alexander united all greek tribes,conquered the eastern world,respected easter cultures and spead the greek language and culture thoughtout the world.For more informations check the article Hellenistic period in Wikipedia

[@Alen4382]

Yos

[@horsewithnoname8795]

Love the statue of the beautiful woman and the faun. Notice how, after falling in love with her, he is trying to take her away (little cupid above might have had something to do with it) and she is about to wack him with her sandal?! It's true, nothing is new under the sun: since the dawn of time women have use shoes has weapons! lol.

[@sagidasyed6314]

2:38 Greeks pit Roman copy statue
Stonks buk big breins

[@MC-bu6ez]

And to think that the Greeks don't have world class museums to house and display their ancient heritage, we should entrust that to the more cosmopolitan museums of New York, London, Berlin etc, after all they know best!.

[@vaggant5557]

This is ridiculous. The acropolis museum is new amd wonderful
The rest of the museums are in a good condition and artifacts are taken care of really well.
But yeah, let greek and other artifacts in The British (or other museums) where they really don't care or even sell them undercover!!