When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The tombs of Alexander the Great's extended family, first excavated in the 1970s, are a ...

Forty years after the bones of suspected royalty were ... Europa was born just days before Philip's death. Philip was king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon from 359BC until he was assassinated ...

A new forensic study appears to solve a long-standing debate in Greek archaeology over the burial location of King Philip II of Macedon ... analysis of the leg bones from the remains of an ...

The discovery, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, corrects a decades-long case of mistaken identity. “A nearly 40-y-old mystery concerning the Royal Tombs of ...

Researchers found trauma on some of the bones, which helped them decide they belonged to the ancient king of Macedon ... the tomb really belonged to Philip II has raged ever since.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. In an article published this week in the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, researchers Theodore Antikas and Laura ...

Archaeologists in Greece are showing how Philip of Macedon paved the way for his son ... According to legend, the first Temenid king, Perdiccas, was told by the oracle at Delphi that a herd ...

The researchers say that their findings “exclude any association of this burial with Philip II of Macedon [and his wife Cleopatra].” Moreover, the baby bones ... (perhaps a king who died ...

The kingdom was conquered by King Philip II of Macedon in 358 B.C. Lyncus was the only city associated with Upper Macedonia, according to Angeloff, and had never been found before. "[The discovery ...