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Fever mounts as stunning statues found at ancient Greek tomb (Amphipolis)
AFP via Yahoo ^ | September 7, 2014

Posted on 09/07/2014 5:44:48 PM PDT by EveningStar

Athens (AFP) - Two stunning caryatid statues have been unearthed holding up the entrance to the biggest ancient tomb ever found in Greece, archaeologists said.

The two female figures in long-sleeved tunics were found standing guard at the opening to the mysterious Alexander The Great-era tomb near Amphipolis in the Macedonia region of northern Greece.

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TOPICS: Arts/Photography; History; Science
KEYWORDS: alexanderthegreat; amphipolis; ancientautopsies; archaeology; caryatid; godsgravesglyphs; greece; macedonia; tomb

1 posted on 09/07/2014 5:44:48 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: SunkenCiv

ping

New Amphipolis article


2 posted on 09/07/2014 5:45:41 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

bump


3 posted on 09/07/2014 6:05:22 PM PDT by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: EveningStar

Don’t let the Muslims find em....they’ll blow them up.


4 posted on 09/07/2014 6:06:18 PM PDT by Dallas59
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To: EveningStar

Roxane - is that you?


5 posted on 09/07/2014 6:14:30 PM PDT by Jack Hammer
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To: EveningStar

Some photos

http://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2014/09/two-caryatids-unearthed-at-amphipolis.html


6 posted on 09/07/2014 6:17:29 PM PDT by Ray76 (True change requires true change - A Second Party ...or else it's more of the same...)
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To: EveningStar
Alexander the Great’s Father? Phillip of Macedonia?
7 posted on 09/07/2014 6:31:47 PM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: vetvetdoug

I think phillip’s tomb has already been found. I would wonder if it was Alexander’s if he had not been buried in Egypt.


8 posted on 09/07/2014 6:48:57 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: EveningStar

Bookmark for later


9 posted on 09/07/2014 6:56:06 PM PDT by twyn1
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To: yarddog
There was a tomb discovered in the 1970s in Verghina (ancient Aegae) which the excavator believed was that of Philip II, and many scholars accept that. Others think it was a little later--could be the tomb of Philip III Arrhidaeus (half-brother and successor of Alexander the Great).

Amphipolis doesn't seem likely for a Macedonian royal burial--it wasn't originally Macedonian (it was founded by the Athenians in 437 and became a Macedonian possession only during the reign of Philip II). It's well to the east of the heartland of the Macedonian kingdom. The historian Thucydides, an Athenian general at the time, was exiled because he failed to prevent the Spartans from taking Amphipolis in the winter of 424/423.

10 posted on 09/07/2014 7:06:05 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Ray76

Great photos. Thanks! :)


11 posted on 09/07/2014 7:09:43 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: Verginius Rufus

Thanks, that is some great information.

I was a Classics major for a while and have to admit that I did not know that was why Thucydides was exiled.


12 posted on 09/07/2014 7:16:18 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: yarddog

Thucydides describes the capture of Amphipolis by Brasidas in book 4, chapters 102 to 108, and mentions in passing in book 5, chapter 26, that “it happened, too, that I was banished from my country for twenty years after my command at Amphipolis...”


13 posted on 09/07/2014 7:27:23 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

I read “The Peloponnesian War” while I was still in high school. Just too much information to remember 50 years later.

My old prof at Troy, Dr. Agnew would have probably been able to tell any detail of the war. He was possibly the smartest man I ever knew.


14 posted on 09/07/2014 7:35:06 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8: verses 38 and 39. "For I am persuaded".)
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To: EveningStar

for later


15 posted on 09/07/2014 7:35:07 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: EveningStar

Maybe it’s Leonidas’ tomb.


16 posted on 09/07/2014 10:07:08 PM PDT by Terabitten (I'd rather have one Walker than fourteen runners.)
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To: EveningStar; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
Thanks EveningStar.


17 posted on 09/10/2014 6:53:10 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: EveningStar; SunkenCiv

One’s not a bad looker, but the other one looks like someone hammered her face with a frying pan.


18 posted on 09/11/2014 1:04:45 PM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one... what's your plan?)
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To: wildbill; EveningStar

There’s a new article about the latest find, a third chamber in the tomb, arched ceiling.


19 posted on 09/18/2014 6:11:15 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: EveningStar

Amphipolis Mosaic Depicts Pluto’s Abduction of Persephone
http://greece.greekreporter.com/files/persefoni-3_0.jpg
http://greece.greekreporter.com/files/Persefoni_Amfipolis.jpg
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/10/16/amphipolis-mosaic-depicts-plutos-abduction-of-persephone/


20 posted on 10/17/2014 4:22:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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