Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

King Darius II of Persia is another suspect with an obvious motive: Philip was preparing to invade his empire. Prominent Athenians are under suspicion, because they resented Macedonian rule.

In October 336 B.C.E., King Philip II of Macedon gathered friends and family at his royal court in Aegae to celebrate the marriage of his daughter Cleopatra — when one of his own bodyguards ...

Archaeologists who excavated this tomb at Vergina, Greece, in the late 1970s concluded it was the burial place of Philip II of Macedon. New evidence suggests his remains were actually laid to rest ...

At the time, archeologists proposed they contained the remains of Alexander the Great's father (Philip II), his son (Alexander IV) and his half-brother (Philip III of Macedon).

is the Carol K. Brown Professor emerita in Humanities at Clemson University. She is the author or editor of Woman and Monarchy in Ancient Macedonia (2000), Olympias, Mother of Alexander the Great ...

Along with Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II of Macedon, the researchers said the three tombs also contain Alexander’s half-brother, King Philip III Arrhidaeus, and his teenage son ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient lost city in North Macedonia that may be Lyncus, the capital of a once-thriving civilization conquered by King Philip II in 358 B.C.

The kingdom was conquered by King Philip II of Macedon in 358 B.C. “Every indication is pointing toward this being the city of Lyncus, within Lyncestis,” Angeloff said.

Along with Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II of Macedon, the researchers said the three tombs also contain Alexander’s half-brother, King Philip III Arrhidaeus, and his teenage son ...

Archaeologists of the time hypothesised that they held the remains of Philip II, "Alexander the Great's" father, Alexander IV, his son, and Philip III of Macedon, Alexander's half-brother. Several ...