An ancient tunic beleived to belong to Alexander the Great was found in the Royal Tombs of Vergina in Greece. Alamy Stock Photo What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece ...

More Panagiotis Maravelis/Getty Several features point to the tunic's royal significance. Cotton, a material foreign to ancient Greece, was imported from Persia, and the purple dye was reserved ...

A physical anthropologist in Greece claims that a mysterious ... “The physical description [of the tunic] exactly fits the description in the ancient sources of the sacred Persian mesoleucon ...

Scientists have claimed that a mysterious purple tunic discovered in an ancient Greek tomb belonged to Alexander the Great.

Here’s how it works. The remains of a garment from an ancient tomb in Greece may be a tunic that was once worn by Alexander the Great, a scholar claims in a new study. The garment was found in a ...

As for the scrap of tunic, Bartsiokas argues the type and color of the fabric belong not to 4th-century Greece, but Persia ... fits the description in the ancient sources of the sacred Persian ...

Greece, concluded from the analyses that the material originally formed a purple and white tunic—an item of clothing that could only be worn by kings in ancient Persia and was adopted by ...

Image caption, Ancient Greek ruins of the Temple of Apollo and ... A Greek woman wore a long tunic called a chiton. This was made from a piece of cotton or linen. Over this, she wore a cloak ...

That included a purple chiton, or tunic. The claim challenges the work ... whose military victories united ancient Greece and laid the foundation for his son’s conquests from Egypt to India.

A fetching purple tunic found in an ancient tomb in Greece belonged to Alexander the Great, experts say. The revered ...