The tomb of Amphipolis, now with from the excavation progress so far.

[Panos_]

Oh, looks like another Macedonian tomb was found on Greek soil 

Many think that the tomb is the house of Roxane, the wife of Alexander the Great, while others claim it belongs to a big Macedonian General (Androsthenes, Laomedon , Nearchus, Antigonus Monophthalmus)

My hope is that the tomb belongs to Alexander, so that the gypsie Skopjans shut their whore mouths once and for all.

Here are some pics, in case you don`t know what I`m talking about.


Here is where the tomb is located

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This is the panoramic view of the tomb

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The entrance of the tomb

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At the entrance of the second room, there are 2 "kariatides" (female statues), 4 meteres each.

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So far, the historians that dug the grave, have found 3 rooms, and they make way for a 4th one which probably is the burial room.


The last couple of days, there is a big fuss going on, about a German Auction house that sells stolen coins from the tomb of  Amphipolis, and the Greek government is gonna move legally against them for theft, and claim them back.

What the media of your countries say about the tomb? I`m really interested in knowing...


P.S - I`m laughing my ass with the gypsie Skopjans, who accuse us that we are stealing "their" history...up yours gypsies.

[Molly]

News in Germany: none.

Edit: Not completely true. Some online issue of a regional newspaper had an article middle of August.

http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/raetselraten-um-antike-promi-gruft-2912366.html

[Thomek]

It has been in norwegian news several times already

awesome.

[Panos_]

News in Germany: none.

Edit: Not completely true. Some online issue of a regional newspaper had an article middle of August.

http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/raetselraten-um-antike-promi-gruft-2912366.html

Funny, since the locals oclaim that plenty of German tourists visited the village/tomb the last month, but what amazes me the most is that there are a lot of Turkish tourists there.


Someone is butthurt

https://www.facebook.com/catherine.kazantzidisadractas/posts/10205038790355658

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The Skopjans denounce the BBC, because he called the tomb of Alexander the Great ... Greek !!!
Posted: September 17, 2014 at 10:15 πμ, Last Updated: September 17, 2014 at 10:42 πμ
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And Skopjans ... crazy! The archaeological discovery of the tomb of Amphipolis causes apparently Freakout at pseftomakedones, who went so far as to denounce even the prestigious international network BBC, because he wrote about the recent excavations.
According to the front page article in the pro-government newspaper «Dnevnik», entitled "amateurism and ignorance in American and British media / How was Greek tomb Amphipolis from the age of Macedonia", denounces British and American media, including the BBC, the «The Washington Post »and« International Business Times », to" amateurism "and" ignorant of history.
As the pentapostagma.gr, the Skopjans an unprecedented vicious parallirima note that "the British and American media adaos renamed the Macedonian tomb type in Greek" and commented that: "There have been and continue to have any kind of positions and opinions . However, no scientist (even in Greece) has not disputed the term 'Macedonian tomb', ie the fact that there has buried a great personality of the Macedonian dynasty. This clearly underlined everywhere. Even the Prime Minister, Antonis Samaras, who visited this place, said the Macedonian land does not cease to surprise us. "
The despicable the newspaper Dnevnik, however, does not stop here, stressing that "it is no coincidence that these reports are mainly of SMEs in the United Kingdom, ie the country which prides itself on exhibition at the British Museum that includes the marbles the Parthenon. "
Indeed stated that "it is not clear to the whole affair is the reason why the international media identify a grave period of the Macedonian kingdom using the words" Greece "and" Greek ", without indicating when the press Greece officially leg in Macedonia and in any area north of Olympus during this entire period, ie from the time of ancient Macedonia until 1912 Apparently this is amateurish and terrible ignorance of the major international information media that have trouble with basic terms of history. "
The Greek official response from the government, as usual, ignored ...

Nice, havent heard any news in the UK about it

Based on the panoramic view i'm surprised it's such a recent find, but then again i keep forgetting you have a lot of ancient and classical archaeology to sift through unlike us.

That entrance tho... that's the sort of thing you'd dream of finding.

There was another excavation 35 years ago, but the previous historian was digging from up, thus hitting on stone all the time  , so the then Greek government left the project to die.


Some claim that the Greek government always knew the existence of the grave, but kept it secret to use it as a secret card in case of near elections etc etc.

[F i n]

News in Germany: none.

Edit: Not completely true. Some online issue of a regional newspaper had an article middle of August.

http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/kultur/raetselraten-um-antike-promi-gruft-2912366.html

Pf that german headlining is so fucking stupid...

Promigruft my ass.

[Panos_]

what does promigruft mean?

[Molly]

"Promi" is a word for popular people "he is a Promi" "he is popular" - like a Hollywood actress is a "Promi". It's often associated with a negative undertone. Not necessarily in this case tho.

[Panos_]

"Promi" is a word for popular people "he is a Promi" "he is popular" - like a Hollywood actress is a "Promi". It's often associated with a negative undertone. Not necessarily in this case tho.

Danke.

[The_Bloody_Nine]

Promi=Prominenter=VIP

[Gnjus]

It doesn't really matter what Skopjans say or write, according to the professor they're all Serbs, Alexander the Great was in fact Lesandar Karanović and his was the third Arial Conquest, 1st and 2nd being those of his predecessors Nino Belov and Serbo Makeridov.
The main striking force of Alexander's army wasn't the phalanx but Serbian Cavalry (Serbička konjica). 
Tons of new "findings" can be heard at his lectures and read from his books. 

[Prpavi]

Well wasn't Jesus serbian too?

[Leshma]

Nah, Jesus has always been Greek.

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[Gnjus]

Well wasn't Jesus serbian too?

[Prpavi]

hahah love the tie 

[Tibe]

Someone is butthurt

https://www.facebook.com/catherine.kazantzidisadractas/posts/10205038790355658

Honestly its not suprising. We used to have a macedonian in our clan once and the dude was a seriuslly touchy little shit. Honestly he would have capslocked you to death if you kept spamming "Alexander the Greek" in chat.