Alexander the Great's massive tomb in Amphipolis

[Kyriakos]

Well, it is not yet certain who is housed in the pyramid-like huge tomb in Amphipolis (a bit to the east of Thessalonike), but it likely is either a tomb made for Alexander, or some other royal of the time.
Or aliens

http://www.thehindu.com/news/intern...tomb-in-greeces-amphipolis/article6308695.ece

It is unlikely that it belongs to Alexander's father, Philip, cause his tomb was excavated many years ago, in Vergina (a nice complex, although not that imposing, but with the typical Macedonian/Dorian Lion emblem, like this one in Amphipolis).

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Who do you think the tomb houses?
Maybe Cthulhu will finally wake up from his death-like slumber.

 

[illram]

So are they "restoring" the wall there? Is that common in archeology?

 

[warpus]

I've seen workers restore similar walls at various sites in Peru, including recently dug up archaeological finds. There was one temple in particular that had a lot of examples of this, the temples of the moon and the sun near Trujillo. They've been digging up the temple, layer by layer, and some of the walls have been restored since. I wonder if they do it partially for stability reasons, so that they can keep digging without having to worry about stuff collapsing.

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't think they are restoring it. I mean the first pic is from 2012, with the same wall (but covered up by sand), and the second is from 2014. It might be another bit of the circular wall though, cause the first pic's wall is obviously made in steps.

 

[illram]

That masonry looks way too new to be un-restored or even just cleaned. It looks like they basically just built a new wall.

 

[Kyriakos]

^Well, Greece is an IMF+local thugpolitician dictatorship currently, so what do you expect? :\

Although maybe they had to build some supportive structure, after they messed with the stuff around the layers there.

 

[illram]

I mean I don't mind if they did, I just thought it was sort of frowned upon to just rebuild over old archeological dig sites.

It would be very cool if this is Alexander's tomb, by the way.

 

[bhsup]

Those could just be temporary cover stones (yeah, like those things the revolting slaves put over the Stargates) to protect it while the excavation is ongoing.

 

[Luckymoose]

Alexander was buried in Egypt, not Greece.

 

[History_Buff]

Those could just be temporary cover stones (yeah, like those things the revolting slaves put over the Stargates) to protect it while the excavation is ongoing.

Yeah, building an exterior wall to support the old structure during excavation seems like a rather good idea, if that is what they're doing.

 

[kochman]

It is unlikely that it belongs to Alexander's father, Philip, cause his tomb was excavated many years ago, in Vergina (a nice complex, although not that imposing, but with the typical Macedonian/Dorian Lion emblem, like this one in Amphipolis).

Verginia? Why not Marylan??

 

[vahouth]

That masonry looks way too new to be un-restored or even just cleaned. It looks like they basically just built a new wall.

It looks like masonry, but it's not. The wall is made of marble tiles from the island of Thasos (top quality) that are binded with lead. It looks like new because it was not exposed to the elements of nature or human contact for millenia. The wall was supposedly buried even in early Roman times.
Also as you can see the tiles on top of the wall are still buried in the dirt.

 

[Kyriakos]

^It seems to not be reconstructed, right, at least this other pic (sadly it also shows the leadpuppet-cleptocrat/gauleiter here, but anyway) depicts it as something exposed from the sand surrounding it for likely an eternity:

Almost all of the building is still covered. At the top of the mount is the royal emblem (a stone lion, like the one in Philip's tomb which is in a southern-eastern part of the province of Macedonia).

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/amphipolis...-could-alexander-great-be-buried-here-1461023