Posted on 09/21/2008 7:56:59 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
It would be more than 100 years at least until Alexander the Great led the forces of Macedonia to conquer the Hellenistic world... A dig in an ancient burial ground in Alexander's birthplace of Pella, northern Greece, has unearthed the graves of 20 warriors in battle dress, a find which archaeologists say sheds fresh light on the development of Macedonian culture... The warriors, whose remains have been dated to the late Archaic period, between 580BC and 460BC, were among 43 graves excavated in the latest dig, with the other bodies ranging from 650BC to 279BC... Among the excavated graves, the team also found 11 women from the Archaic period, with gold and bronze necklaces, earrings and brooches... Nine of the graves dated to the late classical or early Hellenistic period, around the death of Alexander the Great in 323BC... The dig was part of a wider eight-year project that investigated a total of 915 ancient graves.
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I think he is missing two Greek Columns....
Woah, that’s totally awesome! It’s always so much more interesting with pictures such as these. Thanks.
A most fortunate discovery.
Perhaps these were royal ancestors of Alexander.
Freakin’ awesome ping.
Wow.... great find!
Saw the 2004 film Alexander for the first time the other night. Great cast.
Pretty dark vision of the fabled conqueror but the battle scenes were great, especially the one in India with the war elephants.
Yeah, I wasn’t impressed with the film, but the battle scenes are pretty fun.
The Michael Wood documentary “In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great” is worth having around, as long as not too much stock is put in Wood’s reliance on Curtius, his discussion of “atrocities”, and anachronistic value judgments and implied analogies with then-current events. Oh, and he has a sit-down meeting with “Palestinian historians” and studiously avoids using the name “Israel”, even after the border crossing from Lebanon.
Alexander spent a great deal of his time in Central Asia, which had been ruled (more or less) by the Persians for a good while. He almost died one autumn in what is now Afghanistan, but received huge reinforcements during the winter, allowing him to send four columns, comprising a total of about 200K men, up into the north. That was the Surge I guess. ;’) It worked.
Wood needs to be taken to the Wood Shed at times, but his actual tracing of the route of Alexander offered some great locations shots.
I was tempted to believe in the locations in the film, but they didn’t make a point of it so I didn’t know for sure. The Indian jungle seemed a little more open and different from what I expected, but what do I know?
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