British troops in 1916, tried to steal in Greece and take in London's unique five-meter marble lion, which decorated the burial in Amphipolis, said Greek archaeologist Michalis Lefantzis.
Archaeologists presented Saturday at the Ministry of Culture of Greece the results of excavations in 2012-2014 on a hill castes in Amphipolis. Burial called the biggest archaeological discovery of the last decade funerary complex 158.4 meters in diameter surrounded by a marble wall length of 497 meters, in the burial found mosaics and sculptures of sphinxes and caryatids. On the hill stood a five-meter lion, which is reported to archaeologists, and tried to take the British military in 1916.
