Unearthing the Family of Alexander the Great

“Reading with all the innate and iconoclastic dramatic flair of a well scripted novel . . . an extraordinary story of modern archaeology .” — Midwest Book Review In October 336 BC, statues of the twelve Olympian Gods were paraded through the ancient capital of Macedon. Following them was a thirteenth, a statue of King Philip II who was deifying himself in front of the Greek world. Moments later Philip was stabbed to death; it was a world-shaking event that heralded in the reign of his son, Alexa