A Chilean family kept a 2.6-pound marble souvenir from Athens on a dining room shelf for decades; after it was returned to Greece in 2025, experts found it belonged to a temple more than 100 years older than the Parthenon |
We often encounter history in the most unusual ways, without even realising to have come across one of those pieces hidden in plain sight.One such incident happened when a small piece of carved marble sat on a dining room shelf in Chile for decades, and its owner told visitors it was a fragment of the…