Buried beneath a large mound located in the village of Vergina in northern Greece, an archaeological excavation carried out in 1977 by Greek archaeologists Manolis Andronikos uncovered a spectacular collection of three tombs, most famously one with a man and woman in royal Macedonian splendor. Tomb 2 has been the subject of intense debate ever since, dividing archaeologists over whose cremated remains were housed inside two golden caskets – Philip II, father of Alexander the Great, and the last of his wives; or Philip III Arrhidaeus, Alexander’s half-brother, who assumed the throne after Alexander’s death, with his wife Eurydice.
New research suggests that Tomb 2 was, indeed, the final resting place of Philip II of Macedonia.
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