Alexander the Great
Canada
Ontario: New FYROM Provocation with Map Including Greek Land
The Parliament Vice President of Former Yugoslavian Republic of Macedonia Antonio Milososki made a provocative appearance at a national celebration having in the background a map that includes several Greek territories reaching to Mount Olympus in central Greece.
The event...
Archaeology
Vergina Royal Tombs Mystery Solved
"A nearly 40-year-old mystery concerning the Royal Tombs of Vergina has finally been solved," experts claim in a recent study published in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" journal.
In their study, entitled "The lameness of King Philip II...
Archaeology
Alexander the Great Depicted in Israeli Mosaics
This summer, excavations directed by UNC-Chapel Hill College of Arts and Sciences professor Jodi Magness revealed stunning new mosaics that decorated the floor of the Late Roman synagogue in the ancient Jewish village of Huqoq in Israel.
The mosaic discovered in...
Archaeology
New Evidence for King Philip II Tomb in Vergina
A new scientific bone analysis offers additional evidence that the ancient remains found inside a gold larnax in a tomb found in Vergina in the 1970s belong to the father of Alexander the Great, Philip II.
Phillip II was the warrior and...
Art
Six Greeks in Top 10 of Historical Personalities
What are the names that are mentioned more often than any other names in human history? That was one of the questions examined in an extensive study conducted by Pantheon, the new media lab of the Massachusetts Institute of...
Archaeology
Alexander the Great Era Treasures Found in Israeli Cave
Cave explorers in Israel have discovered a small treasure of coins and jewelry dating to the era of Alexander the Great. According to archaeologists the treasure had been hidden by people displaced due to a war.
The 2,300-year-old treasure is...
Ancient Greece
An Identity Crisis for the Amphipolis Tomb
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By Andrew Chugg*
An announcement by the Greek Ministry of Culture on 19th January 2015 has revealed that the skeletal remains uncovered by archaeologists in November 2014 within the tomb beneath the Kasta Mound at Amphipolis, Greece , comprised around...
Archaeology
New Theories on Buried in Amphipolis Tomb
The search for the identity of the buried in the Amphipolis tomb, Greece, has led archaeologists and historians to create new scenarios, with family ties between the five dead being one of them.
However, historians speculate that the 60-year-old female...
Archaeology
Five Dead Inside Amphipolis Tomb
The remains found in the grave of the Amphipolis tomb, Greece , belong to five dead and not one, as archaelogists had initially thought.
Greece 's Ministry of Culture made an official announcement today saying that the laboratory results of...
Art
Alexander the Great Statue to Be Placed in Downtown Athens
A statue of Alexander the Great created over two decades ago will be placed in downtown Athens, Greece, after the Central Archaeological Council (KAS) gave its approval.
Meanwhile, Delta Municipality mayor in Thessaloniki Mimis Fotopoulos came in contact with Athens mayor Giorgos...