I look forward to seeing what they find. The coinage of Amphipolis is magnificent.

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Alexander the Great-era sphinx head discovered at mysterious tomb at Amphipolis in Greece
Updated 23 October 2014, 11:25 AEST

Standing more than half-a-metre high and marked by "traces of red", the country's culture ministry said the head belonged to the body of a sphinx which was found previously.

Archaeologists also found fragments of the sphinx's wings within the same burial mound.

The head was discovered in the fourth chamber of a burial mound at the site in the northern region of Macedonia, according to the ministry.

It was the latest find by archaeologists who unearthed the enormous tomb dating back to 4th century BC and the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia in early August.

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New Theories on Buried in Amphipolis Tomb Culture
by Philip Chrysopoulos - Jan 20, 2015

The search for the identity of the buried in the Amphipolis tomb, Greece, has led archaeologists and historians to create new scenarios, with family ties between the five dead being one of them.

However, historians speculate that the 60-year-old female is most likely Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great; the two adult male bodies are probably sons of King Cassander (305-297 B.C.), one of them was savagely murdered; the cremated body and the infant remain a mystery. It should be noted that Olympias died at the age of 59.

Also, ancient Macedonians did not bury their dead together. According to the book “Burial Customs in Ancient Greek World” by Donna Kurtz and John Boardman, “During the Hellenistic period, the common man was satisfied with a simple sarcophagus, a cyst or tiled grave or urn. Important innovations are the monumental tombs of the rich and their families, which generally took the form of ornate chamber tombs or overhead mausoleums…. This was the age of the individual and for the first time we have ample evidence of faith in human immortality, while the case of Alexander and his successors clearly indicate participation in the divine nature of those dead who had means.”

Historians say that if indeed the woman in the grave is Olympias and the tomb was erected in her honor, then Macedonians not only violated their customs, but they also did something that seems absurd and unthinkable: They built one of the largest and most elaborate tombs of the known world for a woman, honoring her as a demigoddess or hero. This justifies the initial interpretation given to the monument by the excavators and Greece ‘s Ministry of Culture. Other archaeologists reject the Olympias scenario altogether, insisting that the mother of Alexander the Great is buried at Pydna, as indicated by an inscription there.

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