Excavations at the huge tomb of Amphipolis
are progressing at a very fast pace indeed. Today a new update has been
published in The Kouti Pandoras releasing some beautiful pictures.
The upper portion of the marble doorway
that is crowned by the two sphinxes mentioned earlier has now been exposed
with wonderful plastered walls on the side of the passage.
More importantly, as the top of the
doorway is beginning to appear the archaeologists have exposed brightly painted
Ionic capitals. Traces of red, blue and black are clearly visible on these
capitals as well as on the architrave above.
For the first time, I am reading about an
estimated time to reach the inside of the tomb. It would take about two weeks.
Let’s hope this timing is correct and that the mystery around the Tomb of Amphipolis will finally be
solved.
