Qualla: Vergina https://qualla.com/vergina en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:30 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/p/y/vergina-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Vergina https://qualla.com/vergina Vergina: Introduction https://qualla.com/vergina/ Photo credit DocWoKav, CC BY-SA 4.0. Manolis Andronikos had six weeks. In the autumn of 1977, the Greek archaeologist began excavating a hill called the Great Tumulus near the small town of Vergina in northern Greece, convinced it concealed the tombs of the Macedonian kings. Other scholars were skeptical. Previous digs at the site had found palace ruins and a theater but no royal burials. Andronikos dug anyway, and within those six weeks he uncovered four buried tombs -- two of which had never been disturbed. Inside lay golden wreaths, ivory carvings, wall paintings, and the remains of a dynasty that had once conquered the known world.

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/p/y/vergina-wp/srpy-vergina-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Vergina: Where Goats Led a King https://qualla.com/vergina/ Photo credit Jean Housen, CC BY-SA 4.0. Before it was Vergina, this place was Aigai, and before it was Aigai, it was an idea born from an oracle. Diodorus Siculus records that Perdiccas I, fleeing from Argos around 650 BC, was advised by the Pythian priestess to build his capital where goats led him. The name Aigai its...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/p/y/vergina-wp/srpy-vergina-where-goats-led-a-king.mp3 0:06 2 full Vergina: Murder at a Wedding https://qualla.com/vergina/ Photo credit Rjdeadly, CC BY-SA 4.0. In 336 BC, Philip II of Macedon was attending his daughter Cleopatra's wedding to King Alexander of Epirus in Aigai's theater when one of his own bodyguards assassinated him. The killing made his son Alexander king at the age of twenty. Philip's funeral was the most lavish ceremo...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/p/y/vergina-wp/srpy-vergina-murder-at-a-wedding.mp3 0:06 3 full Vergina: Buried and Found https://qualla.com/vergina/ Photo credit Explorer1940, CC BY-SA 4.0. Archaeologists suspected the burial mounds around Vergina as early as the 1850s. The French archaeologist Leon Heuzey began excavations in 1861 under the sponsorship of Napoleon III but abandoned the work due to malaria. The University of Thessaloniki resumed digging in 1937, onl...

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]]> Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/r/p/y/vergina-wp/srpy-vergina-buried-and-found.mp3 0:06 4 full Vergina: What the Earth Preserved https://qualla.com/vergina/ Photo credit Rjdeadly, CC BY-SA 4.0. The unlooted tombs yielded treasures that now fill one of Greece's most important museums, built directly over the burial site. A golden larnax bearing the Vergina Sun held royal remains. Above the Doric entrance of one tomb, a wall painting measuring 5.6 meters depicts a hunting...

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