 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Kuchera kwokutanga hakuna kuitwa kutozosvikira muna 1829, apo vanochera matongo veFrance ve Expedition Scientifique de Moréeakasvika panzvimbo yenzvimbo tsvene paOlympia pana 10 May 1829. Sezvo zvivako zvizhinji zvakanga zvisingaoneki, kuzivikanwa kwacho kwose kwakaitwa kunobvira nemhaka yetsananguro dzakarurama zvikuru dzaEdward Dodwell naJohn Spencer Stanhope. Vacheri vamatongo vokuFrance vakapedza mavhiki matanhatu vari panzvimbo yacho. Léon-Jean-Joseph Dubois mutungamiriri wechikamu cheArchaeology naAbel Blouet mutungamiriri wechikamu cheArchitecture uye Sculpture vakaita zvicherwa zvekutanga, vachitungamirwa nevapendi Pierre Achille Poirot, Pierre Félix Trézel naAmaury-Duval. Nzvimbo yacho yakakamurwa kuva mativi mana, makomba akacherwa, kuchera kwakaitwa mumitsetse yakarurama, uye mienzaniso yokudzorera yakataurwa: kuchera matongo kwakanga kuchiva kwakanaka, uye nenzira iyi nzvimbo uye kuzivikanwa kweTembere yaZeus zvakagadziriswa kwenguva yokutanga. 