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AN APP SHOWS HOW ANCIENT GREEK SITES LOOKED THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. IT’S A GLIMPSE OF FUTURE TECH

Tourists at the Acropolis this holiday season can witness the resolution of one of the world’s most heated debates on cultural heritage.

All they need is a smartphone.

Visitors can now pinch and zoom their way around the ancient Greek site, with a digital overlay showing how it once looked. That includes a collection of marble sculptures removed from the Parthenon more than 200 years ago that are now on display at the British Museum in London. Greece has demanded

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