Amazons in the Family of Alexander the Great: Who Was the Mystery Woman Warrior?

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Amazons in the Family of Alexander the Great:  Who Was the Mystery Woman Warrior?

Amazons in the Family of Alexander the Great: Who Was the Mystery Woman Warrior?

November 8 is remembered as Archangels’ Day in Greece, but on that November day in 1977, Professor Manolis Andronikos, head of excavations, was roped down into the gloom of an unlooted Macedonian-styled tomb at Vergina, in northern Greece. Dignitaries, police, priests and a growing swell of archaeologists watched on in anticipation as the first shafts of light in 2,300 years penetrated the chamber.

Tomb II being unearthed in 1977. (Image: © David Grant)

Tomb II being unearthed in 1977. (Image: © David Grant)

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While the excavator admitted to experiencing the conflicting emotions of the ‘scientist’s elation’ with the ‘desecrator’s guilt’ at exposing to the mortal world what was meant for the Chthonic gods, his guilt was tempered by the knowledge that he had found the long-lost city Aegae, the first capital of Macedon and the burial ground of its kings.


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