07-19-2010, 05:51 PM
The bones have been reexamined in recent years, and it is all but certain now that they are the remains of Philip III Arrhidaeus, and not Philip II: see E. N. Borza and O. Palagia, "The Chronology of the Royal Macedonian Tombs at Vergina," JdI 123 (2008). Andronikos first brought the remains to two forensic pathologists who discovered no traces of injuries consistent with Philip's, but, apparently unsatisfied with this answer, he then went to two others who did find traces of such damage. A recent, seemingly more objective reexamination of the skeletal remains lines up with the findings of the first team of pathologists, and, along with dozens of other pieces of evidence outlined by Borza and Palagia, points to this being Arrhidaeus, and the individual interred in Tomb 1 being Philip II.
Ruben
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
He had with him the selfsame rifle you see with him now, all mounted in german silver and the name that he\'d give it set with silver wire under the checkpiece in latin: Et In Arcadia Ego. Common enough for a man to name his gun. His is the first and only ever I seen with an inscription from the classics. - Cormac McCarthy, Blood Meridian
