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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Well, the answer probably lies outside of the tunic (more on that later ... Though the statue-makers of ancient Greece and Rome had no qualms about portraying nudity, audience attitudes have ...

A "ROYAL tunic" found in an ancient tomb after 2,300 years is thought ... The fragment of fabric, found in a tomb in Vergina, northern Greece, was dyed in the iconic Tyrian purple - a colour ...

“Ancient sources describe a medium white tunic, and this one matches with their descriptions,” researcher Dr. Antonis ...