Amphipolis: The Bones … Murder!
19/01/2015
The skeletons found at the Amphipolis tomb are fragmentary, so we might be missing people, but this many figures is unusual, says Dorothy King, because family mausolea were not the…
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Game of thrones – and shields
29/10/2014
While representations of thrones in early burials show Persians or ‘barbarians’, the ones in Macedonian and Thracian burials seem to be linked with important women
Effective immediately, the Amphipolis ephorate falls victim to “consolidation”
27/10/2014
As of October 28, 40% of all state structures related to Greece’s cultural heritage and the arts are to be scrapped as part of the troika-led public administration reform. This…
Missing head of sphinx unearthed in Amphipolis
21/10/2014
Archaeologists announce discovery of a marble head described as an ‘exquisite work of art’
Historians admit to inventing ancient Greeks
15/10/2014
A group of leading historians held a press conference Monday at the National Geographic Society to announce they had "entirely fabricated" ancient Greece, a culture long thought to be the…
Amphipolis: Who is the bearded man in the chariot led by Hermes?
14/10/2014
Author and archaeology blogger Dorothy King tries to solve the riddle behind the Amphipolis mosaic revealed on Sunday and draws parallels with other excavated tombs. She finally reaches an astounding…
Nationalist fervour hijacks Amphipolis tomb
04/10/2014
Anastasia Lazaridou pays tribute to her father Dimitris Lazaridis (1917-1985), who was the first archaeologist to work on the Kasta hill in 1964, where the tomb of Amphipolis was discovered…