Vergina
650 BCE – 168 BCE
Ancient Aigai, the first capital of the kingdom of Macedon and its royal necropolis — site of Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos's spectacular 1977 discovery of unlooted royal tombs beneath the Great Tumulus, including a golden larnax bearing the Macedonian sunburst emblem that Andronikos identified as the remains of King Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. The attribution remains debated among specialists, but the tombs' untouched contents make Vergina one of the richest and most important royal burial discoveries in the history of Greek archaeology.
Iron AgeClassicalHellenistic
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