They have slanted eyes and a subtle and enigmatic smile with which they seem to celebrate their return to life. Their fragmented faces, sculpted in stone, have survived fire, abandonment and a 2,500-year-old burial. Arranged on a table in the archaeological workshop of the Cultural Heritage Institute of Spain (IPCE) in Madrid, where they are now undergoing a process of analysis and restoration, they convey an air of vulnerability. 300 kilometers away from the place they inhabited and now rescued from oblivion, these oriental-style reliefs are the closest we have ever come to putting a face to what the ancient Greeks considered the first civilization of the West.