It is
wonderful news that in spite of its poor financial state, excavations in Greece
The pieces
recovered from five different tombs are very refined and one of them could have belonged to
King Cassander, the bloody ruler of Macedonia Thessalonica
Another quite important tomb shows a large underground room whose walls are decorated with garlands of ivy and flowers. Based on the impressive ceramic objects and an iron sword found in this tomb it can be dated to 420-410 BC and could well belong to King Perdiccas II, one of Alexander’s ancestors who died in 413 BC.
Another quite important tomb shows a large underground room whose walls are decorated with garlands of ivy and flowers. Based on the impressive ceramic objects and an iron sword found in this tomb it can be dated to 420-410 BC and could well belong to King Perdiccas II, one of Alexander’s ancestors who died in 413 BC.
Yet another
Macedonian tomb was discovered showing Doric columns and a façade that is
similar to that of the tomb that supposedly belongs to Alexander IV, the son of
Alexander the Great.
[Attic
lekythoi and Funeral mourning representation found at the Royal Necropolis of
Aegae, Vergina. Pictures from Archaeology News Network, Credit: ΑΠΕ-ΜΠΕ/ΥΠΠΟ/STR]
In total twenty tombs were excavated ranging from the 4th to the 3rd century BC . Although these burial sites have been plundered in the past, they still yielded some impressive artifacts.
Further to
the south, in ancient Corinth Pella and
Amphipolis in Macedonia ,
while those showing Alexander the Great
come from Amphipolis in Greece ,
Miletus and Tarsus in Asia Minor, Salamis in Cyprus
and from Sidon in Phoenicia Corinth
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Some of these ancient Greek phenotypes survived. Enslaved. Once deported. Greece did nothing to protect them (Syria, Iraq, Sinjar-mountains, Yemen, Kashmir)? Compare:
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We are all part of the Indo-European civilization. Through the ages, countless peoples have moved constantly between east and west and back leaving their imprints in more than one way. Whether we want it or not, we are all part of one big family.
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