Along with Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II of Macedon, the researchers said the three tombs also contain Alexander’s half-brother, King Philip III Arrhidaeus, and his teenage son ...

A study says it has located the remains of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II, half-brother, King Philip III Arrhidaeus, and his son Alexander IV, at a necropolis in Greece.

Alexander III, commonly known as Alexander the Great, was a king of Macedon, a state in northern ancient Greece between 336 and 323 BC – and is today considered one of history's most successful ...

However, a shock study now suggests that the skeleton thought to be Phillip II isn't Alexander the Great's father after all. They say the male body belongs to an unknown Macedonian royal who was ...

However, while many historians indeed believed that Alexander the Great’s father, King Philip II of Macedon, was buried in Tomb I, a new study claims that this isn’t true.

Alexander the Great's Father and Son Identified in 2,300-Year-Old Tombs Jan 28, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST . By . Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau.

King Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, was the king of Macedonia from 359 BCE until his assassination in 336 BCE. He enabled the rise of Macedonia and curated the army that Alexander ...

If this is the case, it’s possible that some of Alexander the Great’s armor could be buried with the pair. Arrhidaeus himself did not fight in battles, but he wore the garments of Alexander ...

Alexander the Great ascended the Macedonian throne at age 20 and died just 12 years later, having conquered one of the largest empires in the ancient world. During that time, did he father any ...

Regretfully, it is still unknown where Alexander the Great is buried. Antonios Bartsiokas, an anthropology professor at Greece's Democritus University of Thrace, oversaw the recent investigation.

Therefore, this cannot be the remains of Alexander the Great's father and his murdered family. All of the infants had been buried in the Roman period 150 BC and 130 BC, over two hundred years ...