>Nicholas Paphitis, writing for the Associated Press, is reporting that archaeologists have found a burial site that contains the remains of a person of nobility. It is possible that the remains belonged to a Macedonian royal. The following is an excerpt from the article:

ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Archaeologists said Friday they have unearthed a lavish burial site at the seat of the ancient Macedonian kings in northern Greece, heightening a 2,300-year-old mystery of murder and political intrigue.

The find in the ruins of Aigai came a few meters (yards) from last year’s remarkable discovery of what could be the bones of Alexander the Great’s murdered teenage son, according to one expert.

Archaeologists are puzzled because both sets of remains were buried under very unusual circumstances: Although cemeteries existed near the site, the bones were taken from an unknown first resting place and re-interred, against all ancient convention, in the heart of the city.

Excavator Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli said in an interview that the bones found this week were inside one of two large silver vessels unearthed in the ancient city’s marketplace, close to the theater where Alexander’s father, King Philip II, was murdered in 336 B.C.

She said they arguably belonged to a Macedonian royal and were buried at the end of the 4th century B.C.
. . .

Saatsoglou-Paliadeli believes the teenager’s bones found in 2008 may have belonged to Heracles, Alexander’s illegitimate son who was murdered during the wars of succession around 309 B.C. and buried in secret. The remains had been placed in a gold jar, with an elaborate golden wreath.

Claude Mariottini
Professor of Old Testament
Northern Baptist Seminary

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