The tomb of the king of the Myrmidons Achilles was found!
Two years ago, nobody believed that one of the two vaulted tombs found in an area near the village of Maurilo in the Municipal of St. George Tymfristoy, belonged to the king of the Myrmidons, Achilles.
As volcanotimes.com presented Monday, March 2, an event will be held on 24th of April at the hall of Lamia under the Central Archaeological Council from the Antiquities curator Papaconstantinou, who will officially present the discovery. It's already known that in this region of Western Fthiotida investigations that started about 8 years ago came to the same result. Apart from the ancient walls found in the area, which is a mountain just opposite from the village of Maurilos, there are the sources of the river Sperchios that end at the bridge of St. George, on the road Lamia–Karpenisi.
Bear in mind that the myth states that in these waters Thetis, his mother, sank Achilles when she gave birth and made his body invulnerable, except the part that she held his heel. Achilles, son of Peleus, during the times of the Homeric Epics ruled Fthia, an ancient city of Thessaly, which was the capital of the kingdom of the Myrmidons. The exact location of the city is not completely known, although most identify it within the region extending left and right Orthrus mountain, where Maurilos is placed. This view supports the existence of the wall, Cyclopean stonework or Pelasgian stonework or otherwise, which were around the ancient city, traces of which were found in this area.
Another view on the position of Fthia was presented by Giannis Kordatos in his "Great history of Greece", which puts the Phthia in southern Peloponnese, specifically in Laconia or Messinia, but historians believe that Kordatos was drifted from mythology that states Achilles and that his mother "jumped" in the sources of Styx (unlike Homer mentions sources Sperchios), which region is currently in northern Peloponnese, on the eastern slope of Chelmos.
In one of these two tombs items were found and identified that are related to Achilles, which will be presented, as we mentioned, on April 24 at an event organized by Fthiotidas authorities in the castle of Lamia. About the other tomb (right) shown in the photo, so far archaeologists have not been able to find to whom it belongs.
