Herakleidon Museum

This guide to the Herakleidon Museum in Athens follows Paul Firos, a Cairo-born entrepreneur who built hotel software in America, sold his company, and returned to Athens to open a museum inside two restored neoclassical houses in Thissio. It traces how he and his wife Anna-Belinda began with Escher prints and Vasarely color in 2004, then turned toward a stranger question: whether the ancient Greeks who raised the Parthenon also built machines. Listen for the Antikythera mechanism on the way in, the bronze shipwreck computer that started it all.