"Philip II's bones found" Topic

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It looks like they have found the remains of Philip of Macedon. Or rather the bones that were found were found to be those of Philip.

Sounds a little fortuitous though they have taken 2 years to reach the conclusion. I hope it is him though.

Interesting, I wonder whom the warrior woman is that was interred in the same tomb?

Interesting!!!

Is this the burial they have been protecting for a long while and exploring in tightest secrecy, or is it a second, more recent discovery?

This is the tomb opened at Vergina by Manolis Andronikos about forty years ago. He first claimed it was Philip's tomb pointing, among other things, to the pair of uneven greaves it contained. The bones were put on display in the Archaeological Museum in Thessaloniki, along with the amazing gold casket with the Macedonian star in which it was discovered. Many of his rivals rubbished his claims, and it has remained an "open question" ever since. The tomb being investigated in a degree of secrecy, with occasional briefings for the press, is near Amphipolis.

Mollinary

I hope they do a recreation like they did for Richard III. I'd like to know how tall he was, and maybe some sort of traits inherited by Alexander.

I say: "Clone him!"

Safe to say the woman isn't Olympias :)

It's Xena.

So the tomb with iron cuirass was Philip of Macedon's after all. History feels good.