Chilean family kept a 2.6-pound marble souvenir from Athens on a dining room shelf for decades; later it was found it belonged to a temple more than 100 years older than the Parthenon

For decades, a family in Chile cherished a small carved marble piece displayed on their dining room shelf. Initially thought to be a relic from the Parthenon, its mystery unraveled only recently. Experts revealed its true origins, tracing it back to the Hekatompedon, which predates the Parthenon by over a century.