Constantine Palaiologos: What the archaeologist who discovered his portrait says
"I kept looking at him, looking at him, and I knew who I was looking at. I knew what had been discovered in that moment—it’s a staggering experience to make such a discovery," said archaeologist Anastasia Koumousi
Ministry of Culture: Portrait of the last Byzantine Emperor, Constantine Palaiologos, discovered
Found during restoration work at the Catholicon of the Old Monastery of Taxiarches in Aigialeia, near Aigio
Who was Lord Elgin: He lived as a plunderer, died pursued by his creditors
The life of the Scottish aristocrat who went down in history as the perpetrator of the barbaric theft of the Parthenon Sculptures, simply because...he wanted to lend an ancient grandeur to his ancestral estate