OLYMPIAS’ S GRAVE WAS REVEALED

For at least two centuries archaeologists were wondering who was the important person buried under a hill near the necropolis of Pydna,an area not far away from Vergina,the tomb where King Philip ,the father of Alexander the Great was buried.

When the excavation reached the grave there was almost nothing found to reveal the identity of the buried.

 And then the Greek professor and profound historian Athanasios Bintas combined information from the surrounding fields of the village Korinos on three three writings on marble and also studying the marble snake on top of the grave that represents Ades and with more information o from a 1940 study of US professor Charles Edson he concluded that the tomb was the resting place of Queen Olympias,the mother of Alexander the Great.

Olympias who was executed in 316 b.C.by Kassandros,King of Macedonia   the heir to the throne after the death of Alexander.He was the greatest enemy of anyone who could be as a candidate  heir to the throne and thus endanger his omnipotence.

He even denied royal donors for the death ceremony  of the former Queen and years later her step daughter Thessaloniki and her nephew carried her remains to this royal tomb and the marble coffin.

Last December Bindas in a press conference revealed the result of his research and  also published a book  giving all the details that led him to believe that the tomb was the resting grave of Olympias.

First escavation in the tomb was in 1850 by French archaeologist Leon Heuzy.

In 1993 historian general Papazois published a book denying that Vergina was the grave of king Philip and with a long and array of  serious evidence explained that the grave was the last and final resting place where the remains of Alexander the Great were buried.