The statue of Athena inside the temple is by all accounts one of the most glorious lost treasures of the ancient world. The made of gold and ivory it was over forty feel all or it was so expensive the cost to build it was enough to outfits 300 warships one. It sculptor insidious was said to have been inspire by the actual presence on the goddess in his studio is he working but the exorbitant price so angered the Athenians. That Phidias was forced to go into exile for the rest of his life. The statue remained in place until four twenty six AD. Then an invading army took it too far of Constantiople. Where it was destroyed in a fire which also consumed most of the city. I’m archaeologists know a lot about it through the so-called statuette a bar Vakil a small reproduction of the Hellenistic period. For countless centuries Athens and the Acropolis were a beacon for travelers throughout the ancient world.