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H Vergina is its town Imathia, is located 13 km southeast of Of Veria, and about 80 km southwest of Thessaloniki. The population of the town is about 2,000 inhabitants and is located at the foot of the Pieria Mountains, at an altitude of 120 meters from the sea.
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History
After 550 BC, a Macedonian population settled in the area. During the 5th century BC, King Archelaus I's moved the Macedonian capital further north to Pella, within the central Macedonian plain. Aigai remained a great ritual center and continued to flourish even after the invasions of the 3rd century BC. and new excavations prove that during the 1st century AD. was still inhabited.
The modern town of Vergina was founded in 1922 between the two settlements of Koutles and Barbes. After the Treaty of Lausanne (24/7/1923) and the expulsion of the Beys, the land was divided into plots to the inhabitants and to Greek families from Bulgaria and Asia Minor, after the population exchanges between Greece, Bulgaria and Turkey.
In 1996 UNESCO announced the inclusion of the archaeological site of Aigai in their list World Cultural Heritage Sites.
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- Museum of Vergina. A large number of bounties, which are works of art or have value of works of art, many of which are made of gold, such as the famous shrine with the cremated remains of Philip II, which bears the sixteen-pointed sun (or star) - a symbol of the Macedonian dynasty, the A smaller shrine with a twelve-pointed star and wreaths of oak leaves and fruits are located inside the museum, which was inaugurated in 1993 and was built in such a way as to box the burial buildings protecting them, to highlight the exhibits and to show the re-excavated Toumba, as it was before the excavations. Inside there are four tombs and a small sanctuary, Heron. The two most important tombs, of Philip II and Alexander IV, were not looted and contained the main treasures of the museum. The tomb of Philip II (Tomb II), which was divided into two chambers (the bones of the cremated dead king were found in the main chamber and the bones of an cremated dead woman were found in the vestibule), contained the most valuable finds. The Doric style facade of the vaulted burial building has two friezes. A Doric with triglyphs and metopes and above it an Ionic one with a much higher height; this frieze is adorned with a mural which, despite the poor condition in which it was discovered, is considered particularly important. It is a painting about a group hunt and probably indicates the favorite occupation of the deceased who was buried there. The slightly smaller Tomb III, attributed to Alexander the Great and in whose main chamber the bones of the cremated dead teenager were found, also yielded important finds, while a narrow frieze depicting a chariot race adorned the walls of the Tomb. The so-called tomb of Persephone, on the walls of which was found a magnificent fresco depicting the abduction of Persephone from Hades, and the fourth tomb, which had an impressive entrance with four Doric columns and is believed to have belonged to King Antigonus II Gonatas, were found. wildly plundered and yielded no significant findings.
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