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New study rewrites the origins of the Macedonian kingdom, dating Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE

For over a century, the foundation of the Macedonian kingdom, the homeland of Philip II and Alexander the Great, has been placed in the mid-7th century BCE. This date, repeated in countless history books, has long been treated as a fact...

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New study rewrites the origins of the Macedonian kingdom, dating Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE For over a century, the foundation of the Macedonian kingdom, the homeland of Philip II and Alexander the Great, has been placed in the mid-7th century BCE. This date, repeated in countless history books, has long been treated as a fact. A new interdisciplinary study now challenges that assumption by dating the emergence of the Argead, or Temenid, dynasty considerably later than previously thought...

New study rewrites the origins of the Macedonian kingdom, dating Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE

New research challenges the traditional timeline of the Macedonian kingdom, dating the rise of Alexander the Great’s dynasty to the 6th century BCE
Dario Radley (Archaeology News Online Magazine)
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