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In a little village now called, Vergina, about 45 miles southwest of Thessaloniki, Alexander The Great Buried the remains of his father, Philip II, King Of The Macedones. Here also, Kassandros the usurper, buried the murdered boy king, Alexander IV, son of The Great Alexander.This place is Aegae, the holy city of ancient Macedon where for 2300 years its royal families have slept beneath huge mounds of earth placed there by The Macedones to protect their sacred dead. They sleep there still.

 
 
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