Macedonia : Archaeology at Vergina, Greece

Video Title :	Macedonia : Archaeology at Vergina, Greece
Description :	Encyclopedia Britannica: Learn how Vergina, Macedonia received its name and see the ancient remains of this area. Vergina is situated close to the site of ancient Aigai (or Aegae), once the royal capital of ancient Macedon, ruled by the Argead dynasty from about 650 BC onwards. The ruins of another Aigai, one of the Aeolian dodecapolis, lie 35 km S of Pergamon, by the modern Aiolis, Turkey. The entrance to the "Great Tumulus" Museum at Vergina. Archaeologists were interested in the hills around Vergina as early as the 1850s, knowing that the site of Aigai was in the vicinity and suspecting that the hills were burial mounds. Excavations began in 1861 under the French archaeologist Leon Heuzey, sponsored by the Emperor Napoleon III. Parts of the Macedonian royal palace of Palatista were discovered. However, the excavations had to be abandoned because of the risk of malaria. In 1937, the University of Thessaloniki resumed the excavations. More ruins of the ancient palace were found, but the excavations were abandoned on the outbreak of war with Italy in 1939. After the war the excavations were resumed and during the 1950s and 1960s the rest of the royal capital was uncovered. The Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos became convinced that a hill called the "Great Tumulus" (in Greek, Μεγάλη Τούμπα) concealed the tombs of the Macedonian Kings. In 1977, Andronikos undertook a six-week dig at the Tumulus and found four buried chambers which he identified as hitherto undisturbed tombs. Three more were found in 1980. Excavations continued through the 1980s and 1990s. Andronikos claimed that these were the burial sites of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Andronikos maintained that one of the tombs was of Philip II, and another was of Alexander IV of Macedon, son of Alexander the Great. This has now become the firm view of Greek archaeologists and the Greek government, but some other archaeologists dispute this identification(Citation needed). Nevertheless there is no doubt that the site is of great archaeological importance. The larnax (gold casket) which Andronikos identified as containing the remains of Philip II has a symbol of a sun or star on its lid, and this Vergina Sun has been adopted as a symbol of Greek Macedonia.
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Omega, you hit the nail right on the head. It's like Hitler going to war against Stalin so Hitler can spread Bolshevism throughout the world. It just doesn't make sense. It doesn't hold up. Not everyone lives in a Balkan village here. People read and write. You expect to convince people that Ancient Macedons are different and not Greek and all you can put forward are your modern distortion of Ancient GREEK sources? I don't know. In some universities you get an F for that! Equals cheating!

king filip and alexander killed greeks cause they didnt accept them as macedonians as soon as greeks started getting killed they accepted macedonians. Now in the future greeks still dont accept macedonians maybe we should kill more greeks again.

If Filippos & Alexandros were not Greeks & "had" a language other than Hellenic where is a coin, an inscription, an artifact, in that language? Everywhere you find written ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ in our language. What the hell! He was the Mighty KING Fillipos and the Emperor Alexandros. Why Macedons never wrote something in their ancestor's «language"? Very Strange: Macedonians used -and Alexandros spread - the language of their enemies: The Greeks !!!!!

The first official SlavMonkeydonian GRAMMAR was developed by Krume Kepeski. One of the most important contributors in the standardization of the "Macedonian" literary language was Blaže Koneski. The first document written in the literary standard of this hybrid language is the first issue of the "Nova Makedonia" newspaper in 1944, official voice of the communistic propaganda in the region !

usa wants to control balkania coz its a territory near to middle east and also near to russia, which become more and more powerfull, thats why usa recognize "macedonia" and kosovo. usa change the history in order to succeed her aims, and thats is propaganda

• Macedonians spoke a dialect of the Greek language. • Macedonians had Greek names. • Alexander's name is Greek. • Philip's name is also Greek. • The regions of ancient Macedonia had Greek names. • Macedonian architecture was same to the Greek architecture. • Macedonians took part in the Olympic Games. • Macedonians celebrated the same festivals as the rest of the Greeks. • Macedonians worshiped the same Gods as the rest of the Greeks.

Tito named you all Makedonians and promised you will get greek Land with the help of partizan gypsies. Nothing happpened! You remained gypsies and you still carry the fake name. Your real ethnicity: Before Tito The majority of population at Skopje was Bulgarians. The majority of population in Ohrid and Monastir was Greek. According to all censuses at 1911 there were no Makedonians!!!

I have a question. I know the Greeks have a real problem with Macedonia and they say Alexander was Greek. My question is if Alexander wasn't Greek why has there never been any evidence to the contrary? As far as I know, nothing of Slavic language or art..or anything is associated with Alexander so why are these people saying different? I looked up some stuff after I watched this and I found that the Slavic people for the most part didn't arrive to that part of the world until 11th AD. or so.

Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples - Page 289 by Paul Robert (EDT) Magocsi - 1999. "The primary reason for the decline in numbers from the period before World War II is that many Canadians who previously claimed a Bulgarian identity now describe themselves as macedonians..."

Why only 90 years ago? Why asking a Turk? Why your thoughts look like they're from a 12yo boy while you are 30? Macedonia exists thousands of years before Slavs and Turks arived in this area. Grow up and get prepaired for some changes which are adout to come soon. The time is near!