Ancient burial site discovered in Greece

Associated Press ^ | Aug 28, 2009 | Unknown

[decimon]

Archaeologists say they have found a lavish burial site while excavating the ancient Macedonian capital in northern Greece.

The find in the ruins of Aigai was made a few meters from last year's remarkable discovery of what experts say could be the bones of Alexander the Great's murdered teenage son.

[decimon]

Ping.

[Paul46360]

That’s where Ted needs to be, somewhere ancient.

[aruanan]

In the now pulled You Might Be a Kennedy if... thread, I was going to put:

You might be a Kennedy if...

Someone says 'pork' and you say "okay" without even bothering to ask which of the three meanings it could be.

[sr4402]

[decimon]

Thanks.

I didn’t bother with the pic because that could be the Athens garbage dump for all I would know.

[ßuddaßudd]

I'd be more intrigued if Ancient burial sites weren't discovered in Greece....

[decimon]

I'd be more intrigued if Ancient burial sites weren't discovered in Greece....

The odds might be good with random digging.

[ßuddaßudd]

zactly

[SunkenCiv]

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[colorado tanker]

This article really confused me because Alexander's capital was Pella. This city was the ancient capital and became the royal burying ground after the capital was moved. http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/C1.1.html

BTW, it's incredibly difficult to get reliable Macedonian history online. There seems to be a war between Macedonia (or FYROM) and Greece over who's version of history shall prevail.

[SunkenCiv]

Imagine — an entire city named after a replacement window company... ;’)

[TheOldLady]

And it probably was. ;-)

[decimon]

And it probably was. ;-)

That would be a good spoof. Go to a dump and compose some shots to make some garbage look like dug up artifacts from some ancient civilization.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

the bones of Alexander the Great's murdered teenage son.

Roxana's boy?

[decimon]

Roxana's boy?

Dunno. Last I heard she was turning off the red light.

IOW, I don't know.

[TheOldLady]

A statist would buy it. LOL!

[colorado tanker]

Imagine — an entire city named after a replacement window company... ;’)

LOL!

You made me curious. The product is named for Pella, Iowa, which was founded by Dutch immigrants. The name comes not from Pella, Macedonia, but Pella, Jordan, one of the Decapolis cities. They named it for that city because it was an early Christian center. It is, however, very ancient, having been a Canaanite center with a name sounding similar to Pella. But there is a legend the place was re-founded by Alexander the great and it was in fact a Hellenistic town back in the day. So, who knows?

[SunkenCiv]

Jerry: “I did this thing on the Ottoman Empire. Like, what was this? A whole empire based on putting your feet up?”

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

This article really confused me because Alexander's capital was Pella. This city was the ancient capital and became the royal burying ground after the capital was moved.

Aigai was the first capitol, around the time of the Persian invasians of Greece. From wiki: 'Near the modern city of Veria, Perdiccas I (or, more likely, his son, Argaeus I) built his capital, Aigai (modern Vergina). After a brief period under Persian rule under Darius Hystaspes, the state regained its independence under King Alexander I (495–450 BC).'