An Ancient Tomb Held Anonymous Bodies for 2,300 Years. Turns Out They’re Famous Royals.
created: July 6, 2025, 5:07 p.m. | updated: July 8, 2025, 7:57 p.m.
While archaeologists have known that Philip II’s final resting place was in a tomb located at Aigai (now Vergina, Greece), they couldn’t determine which tomb contained his remains.
But in 1977, Greek archeologist Manolis Andronikos discovered the final resting place of Philip II, and the archaeology site became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1996 .
Finally, Tomb III belongs to Alexander IV, the great Macedonian general’s teenage son.
“We evaluated the hypothesis of Philip II in Tomb II and demonstrated why it cannot be supported, based on a full review of the available evidence,” the paper reads.
We await the publication of the excavation diaries of Tomb I.”Few father-son military duos have been so historically transformative as Philip II and Alexander the Great.
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