Bronze Fitting Depicting Alexander The Great Found on Danish Island

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Archaeologists have discovered a bronze fitting depicting Alexander the Great on the Danish island of Zealand. The discovery was made by Finn Ibsen and Lars Danielsen, two amateur archaeologists who were conducting a metal detector survey near the city of Ringsted.

Ringsted was the site of Zealand’s Sjællands Landsting, a thing assembly where legislative functions, as well social events and trade was held in early Germanic societies. The object is a small bronze fitting measuring no more than 3 centimetres in diameter and depicts the face of Alexander the Great, also known as Alexander III of Macedon.

Alexander succeeded his father, Philip II, to the throne in 336 BC and spent most of his reign conducting a lengthy military campaign throughout Western Asia, Central Asia, parts of South Asia, and Egypt…Story continues…

By: Mark Milligan

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