Under the dirt, a gleaming Olympic icon: Greece's marble stadium gets a deep clean

Athens’ iconic Panathenaic Stadium is undergoing its first systematic cleaning in more than a century. The U-shaped stadium, built entirely from white marble and rebuilt for the first modern Olympics in 1896, is being carefully cleaned with low-pressure water and a little steam. Conservators say they are carefully r…

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