The international press has been closely monitoring developments in ancient Amphipolis in Central Macedonia, northern Greece after a visit by Prime Minister Antonis Samaras, who said that archaeologists are poised to make an “exceptionally important find.” Since then, speculation has soared regarding the identity of the person buried at the large tomb – ten times larger than that of Philip of Macedon.

The BBC, Time, Guardian, Le Figaro and publications from as far as Taiwan, India and New Zealand have turned their attention to tha ancient site in Northern Greece.

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The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) has expressed special interest in the find and is using it to bring the name dispute to the fore after Greek newspaper Agelioforos published an article on the excavation titled “Secrets of the Macedonian Land.” An article in FYROM’s English Language Newsagency Independent, titled “The Greeks Have Associated Even the Archaeology with the Macedonian’s Name Issue” states that the commentary in Angelioforos refered to the NATO summit to take place in Wales on September 4-5 in an article on the excavation site.