Subway construction workers in Thessaloniki , Greece , have bring out a golden olive offshoot that dates back approximately 2,300 years . settle at what will someday be the Republic Station stop , the lei was found inside a big , box - similar Macedonian tomb — and it was still on the head of a buried female trunk . The attractively preserved wreath dates back to the Early Hellenistic Period , at the destruction of the Fourth to former Third Century B.C.E.
Thessaloniki is the second gravid city in Greece and was founded back in 315 B.C.E by King Cassander of Macedon and named after his married woman Thessalonike — the half - sister of Alexander the Great .
The breakthrough was corroborate by K.B. Misailidou , Director of 16th Ephorate of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities . And surprisingly , it ’s now the 9th lei to be bring out during these underground excavations ( which started back in 2008 ) .
informant : archeology News NetworkandGreek Reporterwith a h / t toA Blog About chronicle .
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