ATHENS CLEANS OLYMPIC STADIUM AFTER 100 YEARS — FINDS 1896 STILL UNDERNEATH

The all-marble venue’s first deep clean in more than a century is tackling chewing gum, soft-drink stains and history’s longest-running “I’ll do it next weekend.”

Editorial illustration of conservation workers cleaning the marble seating inside Athens’ Panathenaic Stadium.

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