© AP Photo/ Aristotle University of Thessalonik. HO) (AP / August 25, 2009)Remains of two large ancient silver vessels found in Aigai, northern Greece, are seen in this undated handout image provided by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on Friday, Aug. 28, 2009. One of the vases contained human remains, and archaeologists say the find was made close to a similar burial excavated last year, which may have belonged to an illegitimate son of Alexander the Great, the 4th century B.C. Macedonian warrior king whose empire stretched from modern Greece to India.
The find in the ruins of Aigai came a few meters (yards) from last year's remarkable discovery of what could be the bones of Alexander the Great's murdered teenage son, according to one expert.
Archaeologists are puzzled because both sets of remains were buried under very unusual circumstances: Although cemeteries existed near the site, the bones were taken from an unknown first resting place and re-interred, against all ancient convention, in the heart of the city.
Excavator Chrysoula Saatsoglou-Paliadeli said in an interview that the bones found this week were inside one of two large silver vessels unearthed in the ancient city's marketplace, close to the theater where Alexander's father, King Philip II, was murdered in 336 B.C.
