Macedonian history unearthed

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette ^ | Fri, Aug. 04, 2006 | Richard Bangs

[SunkenCiv]

In the southwestern quadrant of the country we find Lake Ohrid, the deepest lake in Europe... Here we meet the foremost archaeologist in Macedonia, Pasko Kuzman. He has been excavating 3,000-year-old submerged sites in Lake Ohrid, and the first fortress of King Philip II, Alexander's father, on its shores... Pasko's signature tools include three weighty watches he wears on his left wrist, what he calls his "time machines." With one he says he travels to the Bronze and Neolithic ages. With another to the future. And with the third, his "archaeological watch" with its special sensors, he makes his finds... As we enter he flips on the fluorescent lights, and there along long tables and shelves are the fruits of his trowel – rows of spear points, shields, arrowheads, swords, necklaces, wine goblets, and patinaed bronze battle helmets. One of these has a wreath and curving ram's horns, similar to the one Alexander wears in depictions on coins and plates... He opens a file cabinet and sets down a container that looks like the humidor for some sort of theatrical MacGuffin. We lean over, and he snaps back the lid to reveal his greatest unearthing, the golden mask of Trebenista. Next to it is a golden glove bearing a golden ring, both of which he discovered in 2002 in a tomb here beneath Ohrid.

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[Ciexyz]

Bump for Alexander the Great.

[Dustbunny]

Wow, great finds!

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

I wonder what the world would be like if Alexander had been content to rule Macedonia...

[apro]

Greek culture would not have been spread from one end of the world to the other. For instance when his generals set up Hellenistic kingdoms all over the Eastern frontier after his death, they basically set the course of Greek being the dominated culture of its time, i.e. the Toran was first translated into Greek not Latin.

[Mrs. Darla Ruth Schwerin]

Thanks for the post. That reminds me of the, Roman Baths, in England. Guess they wouldn't be there if Alexander hadn't conquered the known world...

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