Caryatid Statues. "For 2,500 years, the six sisters stood unflinching atop the Acropolis, as the fires of war blazed around them, bullets nicked their robes, and bombs scarred their curvaceous bodies. When one of them was kidnapped in the 19th century, legend had it that the other five could be heard weeping in the night. Today they are star attractions in the museum; the originals outside were replaced with reproductions in 1979 to keep the real maidens safe." ...as quoted from Acropolis Maidens Glow Anew