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In September 1998, the 12th Macedonian grave was uncovered in Vergina, Greece, just a few meters away from the first grave excavated by Leon Heuzey in 1865. It is a 3 by 4 building of the 4th c. BCE. Although it was looted in the past, the few remains point to a woman's grave. The inner walls are decorated with red, white and black color in three zones and there is a stone bench which was probably were the dead was placed (no remains of the body were found). The new grave reinforces the point of view that the Macedonian burials in the area of Vergina are in groups and the new discovery can be added to the Heuzey burial. [020998]
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Although we have discovered Cyme and other Euboean colonies on Italy, it has been impossible to locate their mother-city, Cyme on the island of Euboea, Greece. In 1994 a 9,60 by 4,90 building of the 8th c. BCE came to light on Viglatouri hill, 6 klm south of the modern city of Cyme and excavations since, have proved that Viglatouri hill is the location of Cyme. A lot of 8th c. vases prove that the city prospered in that period which coincides with the first Greek Colonization era.
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Apart from geometric (800-700 BCE) Cyme, archaeologist-in-charge Efi Sapouna-Sakellaraki has also found remains of a mycaenean city who is believed to be Oechalea, although this has not been proven yet.
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Last December, the National Numismatics Museum re-openned in Athens, Greece. The collection is housed in the so called Iliou Melathron, the house of Heinrich Schliemann and his Greek wife, Sofia, in Panepistimiou (or E. Venizelos) Street. 2.500 coins of a total collection of over 600.000 are exhibited and date from the pre-classical era to the period of the Modern Greek State.
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