Five people were buried in Amphipolis

The Greek Ministry of Culture announced that the analysis of the bones that were found inside the tomb near Ceres, which raised entire Greece at its feet with the possibility that it is the tomb of Alexander of Macedonia, belong to five people, and not, as hypothesized, to one man.
This discovery leads to the assumption that it is a possibility that it is a family tomb.
Archaeologists have found totally 550 bones.
According to the analysis, it was determined that the bones belong to a woman aged about 60 years, two men aged about 30-45 years old and a newborn baby. The fifth body was completely burned and it is difficult to determine the sex, and it is assumed to be burned and buried in a different period, before the remaining four.
The next step in the attempt to discover the identity of people buries in Amphipolis is DNA analysis, which will confirm if they are related and if it really is a family tomb. It is expected that the analysis and the procedure for identifying the burned deceased in Amphipolis, who presumably was first buried in the grave because the burning of dead stops after the 2nd and 3rd century BC, to be the hardest.
Amphipolis raised much dust in the Greek public in August last year, especially after the visit of Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who noted that the tomb hides a significant breakthrough for Greek culture and identity associated with the Macedonian dynasty. The first assumption was that it was the tomb of Alexander of Macedonia, but then it was directed towards the Alexander’s mother, Olympias.