A total of 1,400 items will soon be added to the Acropolis Museum collection. What is even more exciting is that these items, uncovered in the course of excavations performed for the construction of the Museum, date back up to six centuries prior to the age of the items currently on exhibit. In order for the new acquisitions to be showcased, another ward will be added to the Museum.

The city of Athens has been inhabited over millennia, and successive city layers have been built one upon the other. The digging preceding the construction of the museum building unearthed a multitude of items, including artifacts and sculptures depicting lesser known gods, such as Isis Panthea ('Isis the All Goddess'), ornaments, craftsmen’s tools, dice, toys and baby rattles, not to mention ancient bobby pins straight from a woman’s vanity case.

Meanwhile, voices for the return of the Parthenon Marbles to their rightful place are growing by the day, and Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones adds his.