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Last summer (1999) Prof. Stella Drougou of the Aristoteleian University of Thessaliniki and her team excavated a new 4th c. BCE Macedonian grave at the Vergina cemetery. It is the burial of a young wealthy man of the military located on the yet non-excavated eastern part of the cemetery. Arms, bronze and silver vases were unearthed among the thirty items of the burial. Prof. Drougou feels that we will learn a lot about the ways wealthy and important Macedonians of the 4th c. were buried.
Workers opening the new highway (Attica Highway) that will connect the newly built "Eleutherios Venizelos" International Athens airport with the city center found a classical age flood protection construction.
At the modern area of Glyka Nera workers unearthed a 55 m. long wall that archaeologists confirmed it belongs to a construction which was used to protect probably a local village or a cemetery in the 5th c. BCE. The wall was built with the so-called "lesbian" technique according to which the rocks match one another closely so that no connecting material will be used. Although similar constructions have been found elsewhere, the way this one was built makes it almost unique.
It is also very interesting that The Greek Ministry of Public Works (YPEHODE) had already decided to built a similar construction in the same area so that new highway and the local community of Glyka Nera will be protected from floods. Now it has been decided that the modern construction will be moved a few meters away so that the ancient wall and the area will be turned into an archaeological site open to the public.
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