Experts question claim that Alexander the Great's half-brother is buried at Vergina

Wednesday, September 8, 2010 - 10:28 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Claims that a tomb at Vergina, Greece, the ancient burial place of the Macedonian royal family in the fourth century B.C., contains the body of King Philip III Arrhidaios, half-brother of Alexander the Great, and not Philip II, Alexander's father, are called into question by researchers in the UK.

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