Mysterious Greek tomb linked to Alexander the Great

Controversy surrounds the excavation of an ancient tomb in Greece which a leading archaeologist had suggested could be linked to the family of Alexander the Great.

Mysterious Greek tomb linked to Alexander the Great

A geologist who took part in the excavation of the ancient burial mound in Amphipolis in northern Greece appears to have poured cold water on the theory, saying that the ancient tomb was not built at the same time as a series of vaulted rooms which were discovered, but was added later.

Geologist Evangelos Kambouroglou added that the mound inside which the rooms and the tomb were found is not man-made, as archaeologists had assumed, but a natural hill.

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