Macedonia

An interdisciplinary study claims to have rewritten over a century of accepted historical chronology, pushing the foundation of the Macedonian kingdom back nearly 75 years from the traditionally accepted date of 650 BC to approximately 575 BC. This dramatic revision, published in the academic journal Karanos, challenges fundamental assumptions about the emergence of Alexander the Great's ancestral dynasty and places the rise of one of history's most influential powers in a radically different context. For more than a hundred years, historians have relied on ancient chronicles to place the founding of Macedonia's Argead or Temenid dynasty around the mid-7th century BC. The research, conducted by historian William S. Greenwalt of Santa Clara University and archaeologist Vasiliki Saripanidi of FNRS and