AMPHIPOLIS, GREECE—Greece’s Culture Ministry has announced that fragments of a marble door have been unearthed in the second chamber of the tomb at the Kasta Hill site. The door had a row of dots down the center that resembled nail heads, a style common to Macedonian tomb doors. “Based on our findings, we are absolutely sure about our dating to the last quarter of the fourth century B.C.,” excavation director Katerina Peristeri said in a government press release reported by Discovery News. The door had been crafted in two sections from marble brought to the site from the island of Thasso. The door was also hinged on its left side, so it was probably functional. It may have collapsed in an earthquake that struck Amphipolis in the sixth century A.D., or during bombing in 1913. To read about the search for Alexander the Great's tomb, see ARCHAEOLOGY's "In Search of History's Greatest Rulers."
