Archaeological Museum of Veroia

The Archaeological Museum of Veroia is one of the most important archaeological museums in Macedonia, Greece. The museum was set up in 1965 in a constructing constructed particularly for the purpose in Elia, one of the most lovable components of the metropolis. Finds from the Palaeolithic to the Ottoman length are displayed in its three halls. The Neolithic unearths come from the agreement at Nea Nikomideia, which is assumed to be the oldest known everlasting settlement in Europe.

The Iron Age unearths come from the cemetery of Vergina. In the first hall are unique showcases showing a bronze kalpis or cinerary urn of the fourth century BC, a purple-figure bell crater of the Kertsch type of the fourth century BC, and a bronze hydria kalpis used as a cinerary urn of the fourth century BC from the north-east cemetery of Veroia, and a reconstruction of a unmarried-chambered rock-reduce own family tomb of the Hellenistic duration, which became excavated in Veroia.

Various different showcases show organizations of unearths from pit graves, cist graves, and rock-cut graves excavated in Veroia’s north-east, south-east, and south-west cemeteries. These agencies illustrate the improvement of pottery and koroplastics from the cease of the 5th to the cease of the second one century BC. The 2nd corridor consists of particularly grave stelai and Hellenistic and Roman reliefs of the primary century BC from the Veroia area.