Yesterday the Ministry revealed an amazing mosaic on the floor in front of the main tomb entrance in Amfipoli (http://www.yppo.gr/2/g22.jsp?obj_id=58792). Studying the pebbled floor leads to some very interesting clues about the resident of the tomb of Ampfipoli: It appears to be an imitation of a similar mosaic of in the tomb of Persefone in Aegae :   ...
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by Dorothy King... Firstly to answer Midas' various points, which he makes regularly: this discussion was about a tomb found at Amphipolis in Macedonia, and not about a temple on the Acropolis in Athens. The Parthenon is lovely, but in my opinion Amphipolis was more important, although both have been heavily politicized by various Greek politicians. I am slightly shocked at the state of edu...
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The ministry has released a new announcement today, as we expected. The newest thing they inform us about is that they have gradually removed the soil from the space behind the caryatids, reaching the floor. What they revealed is the biggest part of a pebbled floor that covers the whole space there (the dimensions given are 4.5 m width and 3 m. length). This can be seen in Image 1. The floor is m...
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According to information coming from Amphipolis, φit seems that large amounts of gold and many offerings to the dead have been detected by using specialized equipment, though the “scanning” of the tomb may be insufficient to draw firm conclusions, as in this case the geomorphology is not ideal. But if researchers could perform the scanning once more, trying from another angle of view, the above co...
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With the removal of soil from the second chamber, sections of marble door were revealed, as the Ministry of Culture announced yesterday. These new findings in front of the doorway of the third diaphragmatic wall have given rise to debate whether the tomb is looted or not. Some interpret these findings as a sign that the tomb was looted. This is indeed the first that comes to mind. For what othe...
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