The statue of the Greek king Ptolemy being removed from the harbour, PHOTO @ pbs.org «Alexander the Great was Greek. It's over», stated in the Greek newspaper "Ta Nea", the Director of the French Center for Alexandrian Studies in Alexandria, Egypt, Jean Yves Empereur. The famous French archaeologist was honoured yesterday with the Onasis Award. "Alexandria was a huge ...

Greek intellectuals [...] did not consider the Ancient Macedonians to be a Hellenic nation. Paparrigopoulos, for example, one of the first Modern Greek historians, in his book “General History” published in 1848 wrote: “Macedonian nation fulfilled, in the frame of the general world history, one completely different mission than the one of the Hellenic nation.” The ...