Manolis Andronikos: Remembering the Archaeologist Who Discovered the Royal Tombs of Vergina The Significant Discovery of King Philip II's Tomb in Vergina

Manolis Andronikos: Remembering the Archaeologist Who Discovered the Royal Tombs of Vergina The Significant Discovery of King Philip II's Tomb in Vergina

On this day, March 30, 1992, Manolis Andronikos, the renowned Greek archaeologist who uncovered the royal tombs of Vergina in 1977, passed away. Who Was Manolis Andronikos?Manolis Andronikos was born on October 23, 1919, in Bursa, Asia Minor. After the Greco-Turkish War and the subsequent Greek Catastrophe of 1922, he and his family relocated to Thessaloniki.He studied archaeology at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Thessaloniki (1…