Click2Flicks - Alexander, The Story Behind The Movie - Royal Treasures - Chapter 7

<body link="0000ff" alink="ff0000" vlink="000000" bgcolor=000033> <table width="100%" bgcolor=000033> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <table width=90% bgcolor=ffffff> <tr> <td align=center valign=top> <tr> <td> <div align=center><p><b><font face="arial, helvetica" size=5 color=000000><b>ALEXANDER</p> <p><font size="4">CHAPTER 7 - ROYAL TREASURES</b></font></p> </div>  <center> <table width="90%"> <tr> <td align="left" valign="top"> <div align="justify"> <p><font face="arial, helvetica" color="000000" size="3">With reconstructions, cutaways and pictures of the <a href="http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/infocus/ad1.2.html" target="_blank"><b>Vergina tombs</b></a> and their contents, we can gain some understanding of what life was like during the time of Alexander the Great. For descriptive purposes only, we refer to the tomb believed by some (but <a href="http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/macedon/" target="_blank"><b>not all</b></a>) to be "Philips tomb."</p><ul> <li>Tomb <a target="_blank" href="images/under.excavation.jpg"><b>under excavation</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/cutaway.jpg"><b>Cutaway</b></a> of Philips tomb.</li><br><br> <li>Interior <a target="_blank" href="images/door.tomb.jpg"><b>door of tomb</b></a> during excavation. Tombs of Macedonian royalty were <a href="http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/HellenicMacedonia/en/infocus/ad1.4.html" target="_blank"><b>richly decorated</b></a>. (This is a Real Player video link.)</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/facade.jpg"><b>Facade</b></a> of Philips tomb during excavation with detail of the <a target="_blank" href="images/painted.top.jpg"><b>painted top</b></a> (called a geison).</li><br><br> <li>Excavated <a target="_blank" href="images/tomb7.jpg"><b>tomb</b></a>, with the sky above, depicting the frieze across the top. Macedonians, like Philip, were great hunters. The painting across the top of his tomb depicts <a target="_blank" href="images/hunting.scenes.jpg"><b>hunting scenes</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>West side <a target="_blank" href="images/with.sarcophagus.jpg"><b>with sarcophagus</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Small sarcophagus with gold larnax <a target="_blank" href="images/inside.jpg"><b>inside</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>The gold larnax containing textiles, gold, ashes and <a target="_blank" href="images/bones.jpg"><b>bones</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/cloth.gold.jpg"><b>Cloth and gold</b></a> inside the larnax.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/reconstruction.jpg"><b>Reconstruction</b></a> of wooden kline.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/left.jpg"><b>Left</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/right.jpg"><b>right</b></a> ends of kline in Bella Mound.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/sword.hilt.jpg"><b>Sword hilt</b></a>.</li><br><br> <li>Large <a target="_blank" href="images/iron.sword.jpg"><b>iron sword</b></a> found in Philips tomb.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/iron.cuirass.jpg"><b>Iron cuirass</b></a>, where it was found and <a target="_blank" href="images/after.jpg"><b>after</b></a> it was cleaned.</li><br><br> <li>Chryselephantine shield, <a target="_blank" href="images/before.jpg"><b>before</b></a> and <a target="_blank" href="images/after2.jpg"><b>after</b></a> reconstruction.</li><br><br> <li>Silver and bronze banquet vessels <a target="_blank" href="images/as.rediscovered.jpg"><b>as rediscovered</b></a> on the tombs north wall.</li><br><br> <li><a target="_blank" href="images/gorytus.greaves.jpg"><b>Gorytos and greaves</b></a> <i>in situ</i>. (A "gorytos" [click <a href="http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/sound/gorytos.wav" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a> for its correct pronunciation] is a quiver-and-bow case. The scene on the case depicts the capture of a city. A greave is a piece of soldiers armor worn over the shin and calf between the knee and ankle.)</li></ul> <p>Even as he mourned his fathers death, Alexander moved quickly to succeed him. History <a target="_blank" href="images/records.jpg"><b>records</b></a> that he was ruthless in those endeavors.</p> </div> <p align="center"><font face="arial, helvetica" size="2"><a href="alexander_great_ch6.htm">GO TO LAST CHAPTER</a>     <a href="alexander_great_ch1.htm">BACK TO FIRST CHAPTER</a>    <a href="alexander_great_ch8.htm">GO TO NEXT CHAPTER</a></p><br> </font> </font> </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table>  </td> </tr> </table> </body>