King Philip II

Philip was king of the Greek kingdom of Macedon from 359 BC until he was assassinated three years later by the captain of his bodyguards, Pausanias, in the town of Aegae, now known as Vergina.

King Philip II was the father of Alexander the Great with his fourth wife Olympias.

He later met and fell in love with teenager Cleopatra Eurydice, the niece of his general Attalus and reportedly had two children - a boy called Caranus and a girl called Europa.

Upon Philip's death, Alexander became king at the age of 20.

His mother Olympias is said to have murdered both Europa and Caranus so her son could take the throne, and Cleopatra took her own life.

Philip II is reported to have come up with the maxim 'divide and conquer'.

The warrior king gained control of Greece and other lands along the Balkan peninsular using a mixture of warfare, diplomacy and marriage alliances.

He laid the foundations for his son's impressive military feats, who went on to conquer many more lands stretching east from Greece and Egypt to India.

In 1977 and 1978 two male skeletons were excavated in what were later dubbed Royal Tombs I and II in Vergina, Greece.

Tomb I also contained another adult, believed to be female, and a newborn skeleton.

Since the discovery, many experts had assumed Philip II was the male skeleton in Tomb II, and it is commonly referred to as the 'Tomb of Philip'.

But the skeleton bears no lesions to his legs that indicate lameness.

And separate, anthropological studies have found evidence that Tomb II contains the remains of King Arrhidaeus and his wife Eurydice