A new piece of the puzzle has been added this
week to the ongoing excavations at the Tomb
of Kasta Hill/Amphipolis, as archaeologists have found three fragments of a marble door
at the entrance leading to the third chamber. This double door, imitating a
wooden door decorated with nails, reinforces the theory that we are dealing with
a Macedonian tomb. Like the other parts of the tomb, the marble comes from
nearby Thasos . The door panels have been
measured at 1.5 meters wide and 14 cm
thick.
At first, the possibility of looting was put
forward, but since the remains of the door were found in the second chamber, this indicates that the slabs were pushed from the inside out, either by the
severe earthquake that occurred in the 6th century AD or by the heavy shelling in the area during the Bulgarian attacks of 1913. Under pressure, the door must have been
blasted forward.
[Reconstruction
made by the Greek Ministry of Culture.
Both pictures are released by the Greek Ministry of Culture.]