Showing posts with label an ancient monument in Greece. Show all posts
Showing posts with label an ancient monument in Greece. Show all posts

Monday, January 19, 2015

United Kingdom in 1916 tried to steal an ancient monument in Greece

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.