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by system1988
Sun Dec 14, 2014 10:02 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

A link, a bit hillarious maybe (the wings) and perhaps incorrect, but magnificent!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kgm9yxJQDTw

Best

Pauline
by system1988
Sun Dec 14, 2014 9:07 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia
Replies: 3
Views: 2599

Re: Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia

Thank you for your comment.Yes, they named the place the "New Amphipolis' because of the importance of the findings.
by system1988
Sat Dec 13, 2014 1:56 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia
Replies: 3
Views: 2599

Housing remains and graveyard- 1500 BC and Macedonia

Recent finds in Pieria (Macedonia) have been found such as arch-like houses and graves.

Here is the link for the entire article

http://www.lifo.gr/now/culture/56967

and here are 2 photos
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by system1988
Tue Dec 09, 2014 12:46 pm
Forum: Book reviews
Topic: Latsis Foundation - Kerameikos
Replies: 1
Views: 2330

Latsis Foundation - Kerameikos

Hi all Christmas present! A new volume by Latsis Foundation presenting the most important cemetery in ancient Athens has arrived. http://www.latsis-foundation.org/megazine/publish/ebook.php?book=77&preloader=1 Some of the findings (mostly parts of vases with presentations) are most likely photog...
by system1988
Wed Dec 03, 2014 11:04 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

My dear fellow the bull is a usual figure in the art of ancient Greece from the Minoan era. I was simply refering to the bull being presented in a frontal way as being rare occurence in painting.
by system1988
Wed Dec 03, 2014 7:58 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

Possibly the second one. Anyway its really very very rare a representation full frontal of a bull (if i see well) and its a evidence of a new concept in painting.
by system1988
Wed Dec 03, 2014 1:49 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: For no apparent reason
Replies: 3
Views: 2651

Re: For no apparent reason

Well this the famous Abul Simbel statues (Ramses is depicted 4 times) but I know nothing of the epigraph you speak of.
by system1988
Sun Nov 30, 2014 8:24 pm
Forum: 'Off-topic' forum
Topic: For no apparent reason
Replies: 3
Views: 2651

For no apparent reason

I had this photo set aside years ago from an old french magazine because the rare angle of the photo shows how the enormous statue hands were paced on the thighs. There was a similarity in the way the hands move with certain greek 6th BC seated statues in Samos island. These are however old observat...
by system1988
Sun Nov 23, 2014 12:39 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

The Greek tv show "Overthrow" - The entitre truth about Amphipolis - yesterday aired this episode about Amphipolis. http://www.megatv.com/anatropi/default.asp?catid=26404&subid=2&pubid=34156777 In the episode some of the most well-known archaeologists of Greece talk about their ta...
by system1988
Tue Nov 18, 2014 9:44 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis

The Greek tv show "Overthrow" - The entitre truth about Amphipolis - yesterday aired this episode about Amphipolis. http://www.megatv.com/anatropi/default.asp?catid=26404&subid=2&pubid=34156777 In the episode some of the most well-known archaeologists of Greece talk about their tak...
by system1988
Wed Nov 12, 2014 6:51 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol

I also want to see the photo of the bones at the moment of the finding. They are not presentable? They are not pretty enough ? We will see them in the presence of the Prime Minister?
God only ONE photo.
by system1988
Wed Nov 12, 2014 5:10 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol

:twisted: 1) The sex of the deceased can be found within ONE MINUTE
2) Also ( ROUGHLY) the age
3) Also a trained eye can distinguish within a few hours (ROUGHLY) injuries and other stresses.
Therefore i expect some announcement. SOON
by system1988
Wed Nov 12, 2014 12:17 pm
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol

Zebedee wrote:If this is an inhumation, and that isn't a little box of remains there but a coffin, then it does get very interesting.
The skeleton is almost 'INTACT'
by system1988
Wed Nov 12, 2014 11:32 am
Forum: Discuss Alexander the Great
Topic: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipolis
Replies: 1585
Views: 545805

Re: The Sphinxes Guarding the Lion Tomb Entrance at Amphipol

13.30 pm.Found the dead -skeleton in Amphipolis tomb, third chamber.
by system1988
Wed Nov 12, 2014 10:21 am
Forum: The Diadochi
Topic: Zeugma- The city of Seleukos Nikator
Replies: 5
Views: 13574

Re: Zeugma- The city of Seleukos Nikator

These are brilliant mosaics and surely a major find. Shame we don't know their date. I think 2th century BC. The city of Seleukia-Apameia has a long long archeological history.( google) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdE9EB67rMg Also look the link above PS Apameia was the only anatolian wife not to...