Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks are the old newspapers, periodicals, and schoolbooks written in "karamanlidika", Turkish in Greek script. All this reflects the lifestyle of the Greek population which lived in the depths of Asia Minor, particularly in Karvali in Cappadocia. There are also some showcases displaying artefacts of the culture of the Hettae, an ancient culture which developed in Cappadocia. The museum runs educational programmes for schoolchildren, mainly on the theme of rugs and rug-making. Historical and Ethnographical Museum of the Cappadocian Greeks Nea Karvali is a village just above the Kavala–Xanthi old national highway, about 8 km from Kavala in East Macedonia, Greece.
Ancient Greek art of ancient Greece was painted colourfully. This aspect of Greek stonework is described as polychrome (from Greek "πολυχρωμία", "πολύ" = many and "χρώμα" = colour). Due to intensive weathering, polychromy on sculpture and architecture has substantially or totally faded in most cases. Although the word "polychrome" is created from the combining of two Greek words, it was not used in ancient Greece. The term was coined in the early nineteenth century by Antoine Chrysostôme Quatremère de Quincy. Painting was also used to enhance the visual aspects of architecture. Certain parts of the superstructure of Greek temples were habitually painted since