In the research paper published in the Journal of Field Archaeology, Bartsiokas explained the evidence around the purple and white tunic and said that the remains of three of the people who were ...
An ancient tunic beleived to belong to Alexander the Great was found in the Royal Tombs of Vergina in Greece. Alamy Stock Photo What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece ...
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Perhaps most intriguing about the work, however, is the purple and white tunic found along with the remains in Tomb II—a tunic is a fitted jacket similar to that worn by Captain Picard of "Star ...
He thinks the tunic from the tomb – found heavily fragmented – matches Alexander the Great's revered purple and white 'mesoleucon sarapis' documented by history. 'The physical description ...
(Photo Credit: Explorer1940 / Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA 4.0) Tomb II held more than Philip III’s remains. Bartsiokas’ team also discovered a purple and white tunic, which, through testing, was ...
He believes it’s a sarapis, a purple tunic edged with a white stripe that was worn exclusively by Persian royalty, which would have been granted to Alexander following his conquest.