Culture Ministry’s Secretary General Lina Mendoni stated on Wednesday during the first meeting of the Central Archaeological Council for 2015 that the results of the macroscopic study of the skeleton found in the fourth chamber of Casta tomb in Amphipolis will be released by January 20, a date decided long before the announcement of Greece’s snap elections.

Ms. Mendoni also said that along with the findings on the skeletal material, additional information will be published on the geophysical survey conducted in the area of Casta hill.

In its previous statement on the skeletal material found in Amphipolis, the Greek Culture Ministry had refuted media reports speculating over the identity of the skeleton.

According to those reports, the fact that the skeleton’s bones of the pelvic area were shattered supported the theory that the mysterious occupant of the tomb was in fact Olympias, the mother of Alexander the Great, who was stoned to death in Pydna at Cassander’s order in 316 BC.

The above reports were based on the statements of archaeologists, which were characterized by the Ministry of Culture as unsubstantiated.

More specifically, the Ministry of Culture underlined that a multidisciplinary team, composed of scientists from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Democritus University of Thrace, has been commissioned to study the material, as part of a broader research program, which includes the holistic approach of a sample of approximately three hundred skeletons.