Treasures Moving to New Acropolis Museum

ATHENS, Greece - One of Greece's most modern buildings is about to become home to some of the country's most treasured antiquities.

In a painstaking operation set to start Sunday, more than 4,000 ancient statues, friezes and other artifacts will be eased off the Acropolis and transported by a series of three cranes to the glass-and-concrete structure near the foot of the ancient hill. The operation is expected to take 10 months.

"It's going to be like a ... ballet of cranes - or like James Bond," Bernard Tschumi, the award-winning architect who designed the museum, told The Associated Press.

The long-awaited 215,000-square foot museum is not due to open to the …