Excavation works over the 2016 season at the Vergina archaeological site brought to light a wall dated to the Macedonian period, a development that long-time researchers of the specific dig said changes perceptions about the ancient city.
The excavation work and research of Vergina’s walls and acropolis, conducted over the past decade, was presented this week at an archaeological conference at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
In his presentation, Prof. Panagiotis Faklaris and his assistant, Dr. Vassiliki Stamatopoulou, detailed the findings at one of the pre-eminent Macedonian era monuments of northern Greece, namely, Vergina’s fortifications.
The defence works, according the researchers, are dated to the reign of post-Alexander regent King Cassander – roughly between 315 and 297 BC.
