The virtual museum for Alexander the Great is expected to be completed at the end of 2015, said archaeologist, head of the Imathia Antiquities Ephorate and initiator of the project Angeliki Kottaridou at an event held earlier this week at Ianos bookstore. The “internet” museum will be casting the spotlight on the personality of the great Macedonian King and his legacy to the world running through the centuries, initially through a five-hour documentary, seven thematic units, 304 objects, which will be unfolding aspects of the Hellenistic world, and 3,500 texts with references to Alexander the Great from the beginning of Macedonia until the modern time.

Commenting on the excavation at the ancient Amphipolis site, Kottaridi however ruled out the possibility of Alexander the Great being buried at the Kasta Hill tomb. “If there is something that we know, this is that Alexander the Great is not there”, she said. “I do not want to find the deceased Alexander, I am not interested in buried bones and I do not believe I will find any. I would rather look for his living memory”, she noted.