Macedonia's royal (or 'high-status') tombs
In Greece this summer, after six weeks on the beach on Naxos, we decided to drive, for the first time, up the eastern side of the Greek mainland, taking in Pelion and ending in Thessaloniki. This first ever trip to Thessaloniki would also give us a chance to go back to the little town of Vergina and see the museum there again. Which we did. And when we did, I realised that the last time I was there, in 2023, astonished though I'd been, I didn't post anything about it. The Museum of the Royal Tombs of Aigai , to give it its proper name, is almost certainly (I've racked my brains about this) the most extraordinary museum I've ever visited in my life - bearing in mind, of course, that I haven't been to every museum in the world. There are certainly many with fabulous collections, and many with interesting, even spectacular architecture. But I can't think of any, in my own experience, quite as extraordinary as this. (I'm thinking of museums housing collections, ...