All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls.<p>They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great..."<p>Worse yet, this is old speculation news. Last year, nearly to the day, they (the Culture Ministry) made a similar announcement: <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2401057/Have-archaeologists-discovered-grave-Alexander-Great-Experts-enormous-marble-tomb-fit-king-Greece.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2401057/Have-...</a><p>This area is home to many excavation projects; google "site:.edu Amphipolis" and you'll see quite a lot of them.
What hope is there for humanity if war mongering tyrants are at the very least not honored and worshiped. War and organized murder should not be a virtue, it should be a necessity for defense; after which you lay down your arms while still preparing for the possible necessity for defense from ever present psychopathic human demons.
This would conflict with the generally accepted story, that the Greek general Ptolemy took Alexander's body with him back to Egypt, where it was used to bring legitimacy to his new regime.
From what I've read the tomb is said to be 10 times bigger than that of Philippos his father. Now if history is correct and Ptolomy took Alexander's body to Egypt, could it not be so that the tomb was in any case originally built and intended for Alexander?
Couldn't the submitter have waited a few weeks until they actually found something? (Also, how did this get so many upvotes?) The article doesn't even quote the archaeologists, but only a government minister, for chrissake.
Unlikely. He was buried in Alexandria, then moved to the desert, then taken to Rome and lost.
They might have found his family tomb in Greece however. They found his Dad about 20 years ago with lots of spectacular artifacts.
Another link with video <a href="http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/08/11/the-mystery-of-ancient-amphipolis/" rel="nofollow">http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/08/11/the-mystery-of-an...</a>
>>There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great or his wife, Roxana, and their son, Alexander IV.<p>TLDR