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.

But Philip III Arrhidaeus and Eurydice would lose that battle. In 317 B.C., Olympias came out against them. The couple's troops refused to fight the forces of the mother of Alexander the Great.

A devastating knee injury may mark the bones of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II, but the debate is just heating up.

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.

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.

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 ...

A decades-old mystery about the body of Alexander the Great's father has been solved, anthropologists claim. This injury matches some historical records of one sustained by Philip II, whose ...