Who was in Tomb II?
James Romm: Macedon, 6 October 2011
Heracles to Alexander the Great: Treasures from the Royal Capital of Macedon, a Hellenic Kingdom in the Age of Democracy
by Angeliki Kottaridi et al.
Ashmolean, 264 pp., £25, April 2011,978 1 85444 254 3 Show More
by Angeliki Kottaridi et al.
Ashmolean, 264 pp., £25, April 2011,
A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington.
Wiley-Blackwell, 668 pp., £110, November 2010,978 1 4051 7936 2 Show More
edited by Joseph Roisman and Ian Worthington.
Wiley-Blackwell, 668 pp., £110, November 2010,
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“... Almost 35 years ago, the Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos opened a large, unplundered chamber tomb in the northern Greek village of Vergina, and a great controversy began. The tomb housed the cremated remains of a man aged between 35 and 55 and of a younger woman, a pair Andronikos soon identified as the Macedonian king Philip II – father of Alexander the Great, builder of the army and the European empire that gave his son the means to conquer the world – and one of his seven wives ... ”
