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Rising one hundred and fifty metres above the centre of modern Athens, the Acropolis is one of the most internationally recognised single sites in the world and the principal symbolic heart of ancient Greek civilisation. The limestone outcrop has been occupied continuously since the Neolithic period and served progressively as a Mycenaean royal palace, an early Greek religious sanctuary, a classical Athenian sacred precinct and a medieval Frankish fortress before being recognised in the modern p...