Kinch Tomb : Drawing based on a wall-painting with battle scene from the Kinch Tomb, 310-290 BC, Lefkadia. The famous tombs of Lefkadia, on the ancient road connecting Mieza and Pella, the capital of the Macedonian Kingdom, are among the finest and best preserved monuments in the region. The first tomb near the village of Kopanos was named after the Danish ...

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  ΑΠΟ:http://www.youtube.com/user/dionisosb   The temple of Apollo Epikourios   The temple of Apollo Epikourios, one of the most important and most imposing temples of antiquity, stands in the bare and rocky landscape of Bassae. It is unique in the history of ancient Greek architecture because it combines a variety of novel ideas both in its external appearance and in its ...

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  Sean McLachlan AP Photo/Nasser Nasser Archaeologists have pulled a massive pylon from the bay of Alexandria, Egypt, that was once a part Cleopatra's royal complex. The pylon, a pillar of red granite measuring 2.2 meters long and weighing nine tons, formed part of the temple of Isis and stood right next to Cleopatra's mausoleum in the year ...

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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 ...

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By Miltiades Elia Bolaris On a Washington Post article, ("Another Rift Between Greece, Macedonia, Both Lay Claim to Alexander the Great", July 28, 2009) Craig Whitlock is intend on sending us scrambling back to our History books. Should we be talking about Alexandros o Megas /ΑΛΕΞΑΝΔΡΟΣ o ΜΕΓΑΣ or Aleksandar Veliki / Александар Велики? Was he ...

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