Posted on 01/07/2024 11:17:36 AM PST by SunkenCiv
The Palace of Aigai in northern Greece was fully reopened Friday following a 16-year renovation that cost more than 20 million euros ($22 million) and included financial support from the European Union.
It was built more than 2,300 years ago during the reign of Alexander's father, Phillip II, who had transformed the kingdom of Macedonia into a dominant military power of ancient Greece. Aigai was its royal capital...
The palace contained column-rimmed courtyards, courts, places of worship, and spacious banquet halls, its floors decorated with patterned marble and intricate mosaics. The building covered a ground area of 15,000 sq. meters (160,000 sq feet), a little under the area covered by the U.S. Capitol building.
Shaped like two adjoining, unequally sized, square donuts, the Palace of Aigai was the administrative and spiritual center of the kingdom. The palace remains and nearby royal tombs are a United Nations World Heritage Site at the area next to the modern village of Vergina. Like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, the marble columns were resurrected by fitting pieces of stone unearthed in the ruins together with replica replacement parts...
Some 65 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of the port city of Thessaloniki, in northern Greece, Aigai drew international attention in the late 1970s during burial mound excavations in the area of rolling green hills with patches of wild poppies and daffodils.
The late Greek archaeologist Manolis Andronikos led the digs and discovered the royal tombs, recovering a gold casket and other gold artifacts as well as the bones widely believed to belong to Philip II. The discoveries revealed the sophistication of the ancient Macedonians, who had often been sidelined in historical accounts by attention on Athens.
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Alexander the Great had to wait for a 16-year restoration to be completed before he was crowned king?
Look at Charles.
That is the state of conservative journalism.
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And they didnt even get the roof put back on!
They should plow it into the earth and make it a park celebrating the indigenous people displaced by the military imperialist Grecians.
One would think Alex would have preferred something with walls and a roof.
:^)
Sounds like a real fixer-upper..........................
Sounds to me like aq tourist trap
$22 million?...........somebody got scammed..............
That’s exactly what it is. The problem of Europe is they cling to the past. They preserve everything that’s old and falling in as some kind of memorial to history.
America is going that way as well.
At some point, the old must give way to the new.....................
Well, the palace is not as much about Europe as it is about Greece.
Greece is a pile of rocks and uses what it has to make do.
Being a socialist country for 80 years didn’t help any............
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