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Columns that surrounded the courtyards of the palace were reassembled and the mosaics decorating the rooms where banquets took place restored.
Since January 16, the palace of Philip II of Macedon, in Aigai, near the modern village of Vergina, in northern Greece, opened to the public after sixteen years of restoration and study.
“This restoration was accompanied by significant excavation work, of which it is the culmination.
These made it possible to better understand the remains, to study still unexplored areas of this gigantic palace and to discover elements of chronology",
observes Sophie Descamps, honorary general curator of heritage at the Louvre, curator of the exhibition "Au kingdom of Alexander the Great, ancient Macedonia” in 2011, which presented exceptional pieces from the archaeological site of Aigai.
The budget for the restoration of this palace of more than 12,500 m² is commensurate with its dimensions: 20.3 million…
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