First off a little clarification - "hold your horses" is an English expression, an idiom which means "hold on" or "wait" ... I realised the in the English language we find puns as funny as the ancient Greeks did (for example a lion shown on the tomb of a man named Leo), but when people are reading across languages they can be confusing. Maybe one day the Ministry o...
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by Dorothy King: I'll quickly explain this again. The marks I noticed were there, and not just like seeing things in clouds. Mrs Medoni confirmed that the marks were made by masons not by accident, and that obviously the archaeologists were aware of them! As I keep saying these guys are very good, so I'm not pointing out anything they wouldn't know. There is a differen...
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Today, the Ministry of Culture has released a new announcement, concerning the progress of the excavations. A very interesting video has also been released, which shows how the archaeological team have revealed the mosaic in the second chamber. You can see this video in the link http://amfipoli-news.com/blogpost.php?id=531. In the following images, you can see the wings of the Sphinxes that have b...
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by Dorothy King: ... ain't over yet. Look, they are still digging as the press release made clear, and will continue digging for a dew years, if not decades. I'm still trying to take it easy to get over the 'flu and a fever, and get on with writing, so please don't read too much into this, but as I've replied to questions in the posts. Based on my experience wi...
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By George Rodakoglou For greek standards ,the news for the archaeological excavation in Amphipolis are covered in record time . Anna Panagiotarea has been a major contributor in the instant spread of information that perhaps even political journalists of media would be jealous of. For those keeping a close eye on the Casta hill excavation, the conditions under which reporters and a...
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by Giorgos Christides, The discovery of an enormous tomb in northern Greece, dating to the time of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, has enthused Greeks, distracting them from a dire economic crisis. Who, they are asking, is buried within. In early August, a team of Greek archaeologists led by Katerina Peristeri unearthed what officials say is the largest burial site ever to be discover...
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The robbers damaged the tomb, stated Archaeology professor, P. Themelis, regarding the new finding in the monument of Amfipoli "It is apparent that the head was broken and tossed aside in the corner", he stated in a morning channel show. "Unfortunately, the tomb was raided.", he added. He mentioned that he had already suspected that the tomb was pillaged, after witnessing...
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ATHENS -- Archaeologists unearthed the missing head of one of the two sphinxes found guarding the entrance of an ancient tomb in Greece's northeast, as the diggers made their way into the monument's inner chambers, the culture ministry said on Tuesday. The tomb on the Amphipolis site, about 65 miles (100 km) from Greece's second-biggest city Thessaloniki, has been hailed by archaeol...
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The ministry states that on Saturday and Monday the archaeological team have continued their work inside the third chamber, whose dimensions are 4.5x6m and they have reached a (distance) depth of 5.20 meters from the top of the dome. Today they have made an incision to reach a depth of 0.45 m in front of the entrance to the third chamber. There, they found two parts of the west door leaf. The d...
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      At first, the archaelogists revealed the amazing precinct and the Sphinxes. Then everyone the Caryads came to light  and left everyone speechless. Next in line was the beatiful floor mosaic with pyre-haired Persefone. But what comes next?   The interest of the world's archaeologic community is peaked towards Greece and Amfipoli, while e...
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