Archaeological Museum of Paros

Archaeological Museum of Paros is a history museum Páros located in Greece.

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    History Museum

Address

844 00 Páros , Cyclades Greece

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Cheen The Curious

It must have taken the experts a lot of patience to reconstruct the statue back together. I am full of admiration for the archeologists with the vision to collect & organise all the pieces!

Cheen The Curious

Are you amaze at how glass was first discovered? It must be such a novelty & item of beauty to be made of translucent & fragile materials with such ethereal colours

Cheen The Curious

Museum is located near the popular church Panagia Ekatontapiliani (also known as the Church of 100 doors). Directional signs are well-placed

Cheen The Curious

When small items are found, I’m always curious about their function or inspiration. It demonstrated determination & aesthetics by generations long before us

Cheen The Curious

Find a statue of Medusa here. Greeks called her Gorgo. She was 1 of 3 monstrous Gorgons who were winged human females with snakes as hair

Cheen The Curious

I am amazed by the variety of pottery that experts have managed to excavate & find on the island !

Cheen The Curious

Wonder what ancient coins look like? They hv a shelf full of coins minted by various parties ????

Cheen The Curious

Don’t miss the many objects on display found in the courtyard . Mostly unlabelled

Cheen The Curious

This is apparently a tombstone. So exquisite how the living treated the afterlife

Cheen The Curious

We paid €3 per adult to visit the museum

Cheen The Curious

Even neolithic tools were found on the island !

Cheen The Curious

Very early alphabets/words/messages captured on stone

Ioannis Wontollakis Vlachakis

Τα ψηφιδωτα ειναι υπεροχα

Ioannis Wontollakis Vlachakis

Ο κηπος με τ αγαλματα.... εντυποσιακο...

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