Vergina

OTE Group, in cooperation with the Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports, will offer free wireless broadband (Wi-Fi) services at 20 top archaeological sites and museums in Greece. The goal of this investment exceeding €2 million is to promote the Greek cultural heritage through technology and promote the public’s interaction and connection with the sites.

A proposal by Greek telecom company Cosmote to provide free Wi-Fi at 19 major archeological sites and museums around Greece was approved by the Central Archaeological Council (CAC), Greece’s highest advisory body on the country’s cultural heritage.

King Philip II of Macedon – a general extraordinaire – who transformed Greece into the dominant military power in the Balkans, paving his way for his son Alexander the Great to conquer the known world, was assassinated in 336 BC. His tomb was found in pristine condition in 1977 with the “Vergina Sun” – the symbol etched on his old coffin becoming the emblem of Macedonia.

Experts confirmed that the skeletal remains found in a tomb in Vergina, northern Greece, belong to King Philip II of Macedon, Alexander the Great’s father. The royal father suffered a leg wound that left him crippled three years before his assassination in 336 BC. New research found evidence of his injury and signs of lameness in the skeletal remains.

The mountain-climbing vice-president of fYRoM’s Parliament, Antonio Milososki, again provoked Greece on Monday by showing a photo of himself at the Naselba Caska site with the flag of the Vergina Sun.

Italian archaeologist and art historian Antonio Corso is considered an expert in ancient Greek sculptures. In an interview to protothema.gr he provides his theory, backed by evidence, on the Amphipolis complex.

The tumulus lies in northern Greece’s Macedonia province, east of the city of Thessaloniki and nearer to the town of Serres.

Greece?s most popular museums and archaeological sites will be open for longer from Wednesday.

The extended timetable, introduced for the first time last year, will run until October 31.

Sites, including the Acropolis, Sounio, Vergina and Delos, will be open from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m., while museums will open their doors at 8 a.m. and close at 8 p.m.

A big report on CNN’s Travel section on ten UNESCO sites which are characterized by mystery and intrigue has been published, stirring interest from readers all over.

The pan-Hellenic sanctuary of Delphi, where the priestess serving as oracle of Apollo provided prophesies and answered ancient Greeks' questions, for a small donation. Delphi is known as the omphalos - Greek for 'navel of the world'. The archaeological monuments blend harmoniously with the superb mountainous landscape. Delphi in the 6th century B.C.

As speculation mounts following the discovery of human remains at a huge ancient tomb at Amphipolis, northern Greece, Culture Ministry’s general secretary Lina Mendoni revealed on Monday that it could take more than eight months for experts to complete DNA tests that will yield clues about the individual’s identity.