Samaras expects 'exceptionally important find' at Ancient Amphipolis
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#2Another link with video http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/08/11/the-mystery-of-an...
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#3All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls.
They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great..."
Worse yet, this is old speculation news. Last year, nearly to the day, they (the Culture Ministry) made a similar announcement: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2401057/Have-...
This area is home to many excavation projects; google "site:.edu Amphipolis" and you'll see quite a lot of them.
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#4>>There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great or his wife, Roxana, and their son, Alexander IV.
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#5All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls. They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great..." Worse yet, this is old speculation news. Last year, nearly to the day, they (the Culture Ministry) made a similar announcement: http://www.dailymail.co…
worse yet, the excavation began in the 1960s.
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#6All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls. They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great..." Worse yet, this is old speculation news. Last year, nearly to the day, they (the Culture Ministry) made a similar announcement: http://www.dailymail.co…
Although you are not entirely wrong, "all pure speculation" is different than "this is a speculation based on some findings, so far".
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#7This would conflict with the generally accepted story, that the Greek general Ptolemy took Alexander's body with him back to Egypt, where it was used to bring legitimacy to his new regime.
Re: Samaras expects 'exceptionally important find' at Ancient Amphipolis
#8All pure speculation. They haven't even excavated yet, only outlined the walls. They write so much in 3 different places, including literally admitting hype in the write-up: "There has been speculation that the tomb could contain the remains of Alexander the Great..." Worse yet, this is old speculation news. Last year, nearly to the day, they (the Culture Ministry) made a similar announcement: http://www.dailymail.co…
Although you are not entirely wrong, "all pure speculation" is different than "this is a speculation based on some findings, so far".
Sorry, my language is harsh because I was addressing the nature of this writeup, which I labeled as "pure speculation." I work in the news industry, so I both experience and see this side of the news industry, and I don't like it. It's the un-informed PR rewrite story.
Way it happens is a general-assignment person (who writes well but has no specific topic knowledge) gets an assignment to write a story. The story originates from a press release. The press release is political: (culture ministry is an office, tasked with promotion amongst things). Politician bypasses actual archeologists and scientists and then peppers the story with speculation designed to boost their office priorities and awareness. "By the way, this is probably Alexander's tomb. Very exciting."
The person writing the story has no training in history, archeology or is generally aware of trends, claims and excavations. No clue what an in-situ find is. They look at the PR, look-up a few background factoids, rewrite the piece and publish it. As you walk by and ask how their morning is, they casually proclaim "did you know pp, they discovered Alexander's tomb this morning???"
I cringe and walk on.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Although you are not entirely wrong, "all pure speculation" is different than "this is a speculation based on some findings, so far".
Sorry, my language is harsh because I was addressing the nature of this writeup, which I labeled as "pure speculation." I work in the news industry, so I both experience and see this side of the news industry, and I don't like it. It's the un-informed PR rewrite story. Way it happens is a general-assignment person (who writes well but has no specific topic knowledge) gets an assignment to write a story. The story ori…
Yup, you are not wrong. This particular newspaper (Kathimerini - "Daily" in greek) is known to be government-aligned and is basically jumping on every opportunity to make it look like more and more things are running better in the country.
It is also very much worth noting that the greek prime minister himself, Samaras, said "Please be patient for a few days - for a very important archeological discovery to be made". Alexander's tomb? "I told you so". Someone else's tomb? "This is still an important discovery, blah blah blah".
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#10This would conflict with the generally accepted story, that the Greek general Ptolemy took Alexander's body with him back to Egypt, where it was used to bring legitimacy to his new regime.
He was transported to Memphis, then Alexandria and was laid to rest there and Roman Emperor's used to come and pay respects at his tomb long after his death,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt#Ptolemaic_Period
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Alexander_the_Great
The title of this post is way off, it doesn't even reflect the actual article.