FfFfFfFF 58,072 Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 The site of one of the most important monuments in classical antiquity - the palace where Alexander the Great was crowned king - has reopened after a 16-year restoration. Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who attended a ceremony for the site's reopening on Friday, described it as a "monument of global importance". The site of Palace of Aigai, near modern day Vergina in northern Greece, has undergone a 16-year renovation that cost more than €20 million ($32.6 million) and included financial support from the European Union. “After many years of painstaking work, we can reveal the palace … What we are doing today is an event of global importance,” Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said at an inauguration event at the site on Friday. The palace contained column-rimmed courtyards, courts, places of worship, and spacious banquet halls, its floors decorated with patterned marble and intricate mosaics. The building covered a ground area of 15,000 square metres, a little under the area covered by the US Capitol building. The palace’s remains and nearby royal tombs are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle, the marble columns were resurrected by inserting pieces of stone unearthed in the ruins together with replica replacement parts. Sources: https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/greece-unveils-palace-where-alexander-the-great-became-king-20240106-p5evjl.html, https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-67899408 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 it looks like it is already open to me Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pachinko 10,753 Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 Where is the palace? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 58,072 Posted January 6, 2024 Author Share Posted January 6, 2024 10 minutes ago, pachinko said: Where is the palace? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quentin 6,771 Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 17 minutes ago, pachinko said: Where is the palace? In the vault with ARTPOP ACT II and TCB film Spoiler (yeah it's a big vault) Follow every rainbow till you find your dream Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionic 50,111 Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 can't be that great if his palace didn't even have walls or a roof Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RAMROD 117,007 Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 30 minutes ago, bionic said: can't be that great if his palace didn't even have walls or a roof Inb4 you can find them in British museums (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ✧*:･ﾟ ᶠʳᵒⁿᵗ ᵗᵒʷᵃʳᵈ ᵉⁿᵉᵐʸ (*´艸｀*) ♡♡♡ Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CautiousLurker 19,709 Posted January 6, 2024 Share Posted January 6, 2024 I read it as Virginia and because I'm so tired I didn't even question it at first - I think my body is beyond repair at this point, I need a new model It's a joke! When you give me that look, it's a joke! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FfFfFfFF 58,072 Posted January 7, 2024 Author Share Posted January 7, 2024 21 hours ago, CautiousLurker said: I read it as Virginia and because I'm so tired I didn't even question it at first - I think my body is beyond repair at this point, I need a new model I mean we all know Adam and Eve were born in Missouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman, who's to say the Ancient civilizations and empires were not American too? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4therupbeat 1,587 Posted January 7, 2024 Share Posted January 7, 2024 how did they renovate...ruins? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimitristhe 1,567 Posted January 7, 2024 Share Posted January 7, 2024 6 minutes ago, r4therupbeat said: how did they renovate...ruins? They put the broken pieces together. Is a very hard task. Just look at the mosaic floor, it’s made of thousands of pieces. Imagine the floor was all messed up and they had to put everything together again. It’s pretty impressive in my opinion. When we're not together tell me everything's gonna be alright Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
r4therupbeat 1,587 Posted January 7, 2024 Share Posted January 7, 2024 2 hours ago, dimitristhe said: They put the broken pieces together. Is a very hard task. Just look at the mosaic floor, it’s made of thousands of pieces. Imagine the floor was all messed up and they had to put everything together again. It’s pretty impressive in my opinion. sounds interesting. considering its the greek government though they probably spend 200k and pocketed the rest Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted January 8, 2024 Share Posted January 8, 2024 On 1/6/2024 at 2:23 PM, bionic said: can't be that great if his palace didn't even have walls or a roof I think he was in an open relationship so he had an open floorplan. Art imitates life. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dimitristhe 1,567 Posted January 8, 2024 Share Posted January 8, 2024 6 hours ago, r4therupbeat said: sounds interesting. considering its the greek government though they probably spend 200k and pocketed the rest As a Greek I can confirm this! Especially this government (right party are specialists at pocketing money. When we're not together tell me everything's gonna be alright Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CautiousLurker 19,709 Posted January 8, 2024 Share Posted January 8, 2024 23 hours ago, FfFfFfFF said: I mean we all know Adam and Eve were born in Missouri https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam-ondi-Ahman, who's to say the Ancient civilizations and empires were not American too? Omg that's right, and Jesus was american, I just remembered! Btw I just typed in american Jesus into google cuz I wanted to including supporting pictorial evidaunce, and I want to die in minecraft Spoiler It's a joke! When you give me that look, it's a joke! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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