The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter solstice, according to a somewhat controversial new study. Believed to have ...

A physical anthropologist in Greece claims that a mysterious material discovered in one of the iconic fourth-century BCE Royal Tombs at Vergina is a tunic fragment that belonged to none other than ...

A grand tomb that may have been built for Alexander the Great's best friend and bodyguard around 2,300 years ago has an astronomical secret: Its burial chamber is aligned so that sunlight enters it on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Archaeologists in Vergina, Macedonia, Greece have made a remarkable discovery. They have found a purple-dyed textile in the ...

An ancient tomb in Greece does not hold the remains of Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, as some scholars think it does, a new study suggests. Instead, it contains the remains of a younger ...

In life, Alexander the Great stamped his mark across the known world. Today, the search for tangible evidence of his fleeting existence continues. While the prospect of uncovering Alexander’s tomb ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Alexander the Great was one of history’s greatest generals, but his father—Philip II—was no slouch either. His rule gave rise to Macedonia and its ...

Researchers believe they have found a tunic that once belonged to Alexander the Great among artifacts in the royal tombs in Vergina, Greece, which has led to debate in the archeological field. The ...

Nectanebo II never did use this sarcophagus, and tradition had long associated it with Alexander the Great. Chugg suggests ...

A Greek researcher says a piece of purple-and-white fabric discovered decades ago in a tomb in northern Greece may have belonged to Alexander. Others disagree. By Lynsey Chutel Could it be a scrap of ...