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Monday, 20th April 2009 (1424 views)

A team from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki has revealed details of golden archaeological finds uncovered at Vergina in northern Greece.

According to Balkan Travellers, artefacts found in a tomb included a cylindrical gold container (larnax) used to store the bones of the dead and dating from the end of the fourth century BC.

Inside the container was a wreath of oak leaves made out of gold, similar to one found with the burial of King Philip II of Macedon.

The findings were announced during a meeting on archaeological work being carried out in the provinces of Thrace and Macedonia.

A small town in northern Greece, Vergina is located in central Macedonia and became famous in 1977 when Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos found the burial site of the kings of Macedon, establishing the site as Aigai, the royal capital of Macedon.

In related news, a 3,000-year-old bracelet was recently unearthed in a field in County Tyrone, Northern Ireland by a farmer and his family.

 

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