Posted on 04/21/2007 12:10:27 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Archaeologists in northeastern Greece have unearthed eight tombs containing the remains of men and women who lived over 2 000 years ago, along with an assortment of jewellery, weapons and agricultural tools, the Greek culture ministry said on Friday.
The tombs dating from the fifth to third centuries BC were dug into rock, likely covered with stone slabs and probably lay alongside an ancient road, the ministry said in a statement.
They were discovered near a freeway between the cities of Salonika and Edessa during road construction.
Prior excavation in the same area has already unearthed three farms dating from Roman to Hellenistic times, and a fourth from the Early Christian era.
Northern Greece was extremely rich in antiquities, being the seat of the Macedonian Empire that stretched from the Balkans to Egypt and India at its peak in the fourth century BC under Alexander the Great.
But many such sites are often found to have been looted.
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I keep hoping one day a corpse will tell these folks to leave him alone and slam the lid back down.
Moster Mash.
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I was just listening to Monster Mash this morning!
:’) Pickett version, or Karloff?
Yep...there’s some pretty old stuff over there.
It is not the Macedonian Empire but rather the Hellenistic/Greek Empire that Alexander founded. Alexander was a Macedonian Greek not a Macedonian. He and his entourage spoke Greek and considered themselves Greek culturally and ethnically.
Alexander was Macedonian, but he had a Greek tutor.
http://www.alexanderofmacedon.org/
Alexander was born in 356 BC in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia. He was son of Philip II, King of Macedonia, and Olympias, the princess of neighboring Epirus... When he was 13, Philip hired the Greek philosopher Aristotle to be Alexander’s personal tutor. During the next three years Aristotle gave Alexander a training in rhetoric and literature and stimulated his interest in science, medicine, and philosophy, all of which became of importance in Alexander’s later life. In 340, when Philip assembled a large Macedonian army and invaded Thrace, he left his 16 years old son with the power to rule Macedonia in his absence as regent... Two years later in 338 BC, Philip gave his son a commanding post among the senior generals as the Macedonian army invaded Greece. At the Battle of Chaeronea the Greeks were defeated and Alexander displayed his bravery by destroying the elite Greek force, the Theban Secret Band.
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