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 ...

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 for elite use.

A physical anthropologist in Greece claims that a mysterious material discovered in one of the iconic fourth-century BCE Royal Tombs at Vergina is a tunic fragment that belonged to none other than ...

As for the scrap of tunic, Bartsiokas argues the type and color of the fabric belong not to 4th-century Greece, but Persia, a territory Alexander eventually succeeded in conquering in 334 B.C.E.

For centuries, the tunics were kept in a cypress case inside the Sancta Sanctorum, or Holy of Holies, a chapel located near the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome and named after the sacred site ...