The 8th November is celebrated as Archangels Day in Greece, but on that November day in 1977 CE something remarkable happened: an excavation team led by Professor Manolis Andronikos were roped down into the eerie gloom of an unlooted Macedonian-styled tomb at Vergina in northern Greece. Dignitaries, police, priests, and swelling ranks of archaeologists watched on in anticipation as the first shafts of light in 2,300 years penetrated its interior.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://www.worldhistory.org/article/1437/warrior-women-of-the-world-of-ancient-macedon/.
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- Do you think the woman in Tomb II was a warrior or a royal family member?
- Why do you think archaeologists disagreed so much about the bones at Vergina?
- What do you think the weapons in the tomb tell us about women in ancient Macedon?
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