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The Greek archaeologist [[Manolis Andronikos]] became convinced that a hill called the ''[[Royal tombs of Vergina|Great Tumulus]]'' (Μεγάλη Τούμπα) concealed the tombs of the Macedonian kings. In 1977, Andronikos undertook a six-week dig at the Great Tumulus and found four buried tombs, two of which had never been disturbed. Andronikos claimed that these were the burial sites of the kings of Macedon, including the tomb of [[Philip II of Macedon|Philip II]], father of [[Alexander the Great]] (Tomb II) and also of [[Alexander IV of Macedon]], son of Alexander the Great and [[Roxana]] (Tomb III).
This view was challenged by some archaeologists,<ref>{{cite book |last=Borza |first=Eugene N. |author-link=Eugene N. Borza |date=1999 |title=Before Alexander: Constructing Early Macedonia |url=https://archive.org/details/before-alexander-constructing-early-macedonia/page/68/mode/1up |series=Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians, 6 |location=[[Claremont, California|Claremont, CA]] |publisher=Regina Books |isbn=0941690970 |pages=68–74 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last=Bartsiokas |first=Antonis |date=21 April 2000 |title=The Eye Injury of King Philip II and the Skeletal Evidence from the Royal Tomb II at Vergina |journal=[[Science (journal)|Science]] |volume=288 |issue=5465 |pages=511–514 |bibcode=2000Sci...288..511B |doi=10.1126/science.288.5465.511 |pmid=10775109 |jstor=3075009}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Borza |first1=Eugene N. |author-link1=Eugene N. Borza |last2=Palagia |first2=Olga |author-link2=Olga Palagia |date=2007 |title=The Chronology of the Macedonian Royal Tombs at Vergina |journal=Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts |volume=122 |pages=81-125 |issn=0070-4415}}</ref> but in 2010 research based on detailed study of the skeletons, vindicated Andronikos and supports the evidence of facial asymmetry caused by a possible trauma of the cranium of the male, evidence that is consistent with the history of Philip II.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2010/7207.html|title=2010: Vergina Tomb II - News - University of Bristol|first=University of|last=Bristol|website=www.bris.ac.uk|access-date=16 July 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Musgrave |first1=J. |last2=Prag |first2=A. J. N. W. |last3=Neave |first3=R. |last4=Fox |first4=R. L. |last5=White |first5=H. |name-list-style=amp |date=2010 |title=The Occupants of Tomb II at Vergina. Why Arrhidaios and Eurydice must be excluded |journal=International Journal of Medical Science |volume=7 |issue=6 |pages=s1-s15 |doi=10.7150/ijms.7.s1 |doi-access=free}}</ref> From 1987 the burial cluster of the queens was discovered including the tomb of Queen [[Eurydice I of Macedon|Eurydice]]. In March 2014, five more royal tombs were discovered in Vergina, possibly belonging to [[Alexander I of Macedon]] and his family or to the family of [[Cassander]] of Macedon. Some artifacts excavated at Vergina may be treated as influenced by Asian practices or even imported from [[Achaemenid Persia]] in late 6th and early 5th centuries BC,<ref>{{harvnb|Roisman|Worthington|2011|p=345}}.</ref> which is during the time [[Macedonia (ancient kingdom)|Macedon]] was under the Persian sway.
===Royal burial cluster of Philip II===
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