Largest ancient tomb found of a prominent Macedonian

[Risto the Great]

I think this could be the most significant finding related to ancient Macedonian history since the discovery of King Phillip's tomb in 1977

Looks awesome so far.
No doubt anything "not helpful" will have been removed already by the usurpers.

[Macedonian_Nationalist]

How saddening that a group of Turko Christians that have nothing to do with Macedonia are making these discoveries

Thieves!

[Dejan]

It's a great find, unfortunately the world won't be told the truth about it and us

[Bill77]

One question,

The historian Diodorus Siculus reports that Alexander’s widow, the Bactrian princess Roxane, and his posthumous son Alexander IV, were placed under house arrest at Amphipolis by Alexander’s distant relative and successor as Macedonian ruler, Cassander. Also according to Diodorus ........Cassander, recognising the existence of Alexander’s legitimate heir, now 14 years old, as a threat to his own power, had both of them murdered there in 309 BC. Diodorus also points out that the murder of the two was kept secret.

Therefor........why and by whom was such an enormous tumulus erected over the tomb of Roxane.

[Bill77]

since the discovery of King Phillip's tomb in 1977

Actually.......it ended up not being the Tomb of King Phillip

No doubt anything "not helpful" will have been removed already by the usurpers.

correct........

Then we have this tainted findings announced, which then ends up in our education system for the likes of Constelation to run around screaming,

"CONSENSUS.......CONSENSUS" each time he is challenged.

[Agamoi Thytai]

Looks awesome so far.
No doubt anything "not helpful" will have been removed already by the usurpers.

Like what? How is it that while a plenty of ancient Macedonian artifacts, inscriptions e.t.c have been discovered so far in excavations in various archaeologocal sites in ROM, there has been never found anything that could be "not helpful" at all to the Greek cause?

How saddening that a group of Turko Christians that have nothing to do with Macedonia are making these discoveries

Come on, don't be so ungrateful! At least these "Turkish Christians" can read and translate ancient Macedonian inscriptions unlike you.

Thieves!

Hmm, last time I checked the thief (who was supposed to be an archaeologist) was on the other side of the borders!

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/25765/2/

[Agamoi Thytai]

One question,

The historian Diodorus Siculus reports that Alexander’s widow, the Bactrian princess Roxane, and his posthumous son Alexander IV, were placed under house arrest at Amphipolis by Alexander’s distant relative and successor as Macedonian ruler, Cassander. Also according to Diodorus ........Cassander, recognising the existence of Alexander’s legitimate heir, now 14 years old, as a threat to his own power, had both of them murdered there in 309 BC. Diodorus also points out that the murder of the two was kept secret.

Therefor........why and by whom was such an enormous tumulus erected over the tomb of Roxane.

By Cassander himself, in order to demonstrate his innocence. He never admitted the assasination of Roxane and her son, instead his followers spread rumors of their sudden death due to some "mysterious disease".

[George S.]

s who are the archaeologists and if I remember right aphipolis was garrisoned with Macedonian soldiers and kept a watch on greeks in case they revolted.So put that in perspective.Just rember who is discovering things greeks discovering Macedonian artifacts calling it greek finds.

[Dejan]

Come on, don't be so ungrateful! At least these "Turkish Christians" can read and translate ancient Macedonian inscriptions unlike you.

The inscriptions are not ancient Macedonian. Or have you done the presently impossible/improbable and discovered the script of the ancient Macedonians, where professionals haven't been able to???

[Niko777]

We all know this famous statue of the lion at Amphipolis. It turns out that this statue was originally located on top of the burial mound where they are currently excavating.
Photo below, and computer generated model of the burial mound and the statue's original location.





The burial mound measures 497m across, with a wall that is 3m high. Although it is almost a complete circle carved in marble, it is built in levels similar to the way an Egyptian pyramid is built.



This is exciting stuff, who knows what treasures lay inside.

[Niko777]

BTW archaeologists estimate that they will be inside the tomb in 2-3 weeks

[Poligiros]

How saddening that a group of Turko Christians that have nothing to do with Macedonia are making these discoveries

Thieves!

Greetings,

That is a defamatory comment about Turko Christians? What about the native Makedoni of the region i.e. Hellenes such as my family? We always made up at least 40% of the population from Ottoman statistics, situated mainly in the southern/eastern regions of Aegean Macedonia.

I have just returned from Aegean Macedonia and more analysis has confirmed my family have been a Hellenic speaking and native in the region for more than 500 years, if not longer?

Amfipolis is situated 80 km north east of my town. I consider myself a Macedonian, ancestors come from the ancient Macedonian precinct of Olynthos and can read ancient Macedonian inscriptions using Greek. These regions have always been populated by Greek Byzantine remnants who were descendants of Macedonian tribe.

I think that more than qualifies my type of Greek ethnicity as Macedonian, much like a Spartan-Greek, Thessalian-Greek, Thracian-Greek.

Can any of you trace the same lineage?

In addition, it was nice to meet people from the Republic enjoying our coastline, without the extreme delusional views.

Finally, in addition to a few family members, my koumbaros' father is a hardline Greek hating RO-Macedonian from Aegean Macedonia. He considers himself Slavic too and believes that ancient Macedonians were the original Slavic speakers and the language spread north. A lot of his points of conversation in Greece this year conclude that the Greek government covers up ancient artifacts found in Aegean Macedonia. The comeback from a local Hellene along the lines, "we are so lazy and incompetent and cant do anything properly, how can we possibly remove and hide all ancient Slavic inscriptions and amazingly replace them with ancient Greek?"

That got a laugh from everyone.

[Redsun]

Two to three weeks until the tomb is accessed.

I expect official’s from European Archeological societies to make a presence in the area soon.

Has there been any news of Archeological representatives from any other institutes besides the one based in Athens.

I can imagine a discovery of this magnitude in this modern age would be filmed to profit off, is there news of any documentary film crews in the area?

That picture of what seems to be the entrance with the two sphinxes, why do the walls on either side seem to be much smoother than the one covering the entrance; it may have already been looted.

[Bill77]

When the general peace between Cassander, Antigonus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus put an end to the Third Diadoch War in 311 BC, the peace treaty recognized Alexander IV's rights and explicitly stated that when he came of age he would succeed Cassander as ruler.

Following the treaty, defenders of the Argead dynasty began to declare that Alexander IV should now exercise full power and that a regent was no longer needed.

Cassander had every reason to to command the assassination inorder to secure his rule. He also would have reasons to lie and deny responsibility.

Where did you get your information (Cassander claims of innocence) from, if you don't mind me asking?

I tried searching for it but no luck. Thanks in advance.

[Poligiros]

Two to three weeks until the tomb is accessed.


That picture of what seems to be the entrance with the two sphinxes, why do the walls on either side seem to be much smoother than the one covering the entrance; it may have already been looted.

Most tombs, especially ones that are over 2000 years old have been looted throughout the ages. Likelihood is, on average differing peasant farmers discover that same tomb once every couple of hundred years and take anything of market value at the time.