The archaéological excavations since the end of last century had primarily concentrated in the south of Greece with the results which one knows, whereas Makédonia (Macedonia) remained occupped until 1912 by Turkey, which besides did not worry little to dévelop archaéology of it. However, since about thirty years, and the discovery by Manolis Andronicos, with part of 1977, of the royal tombs of Vergina (Greece), a change of optics started in favour of Makédonia (Macedonia).

In a rather curious way, the political évenements helped this movement, while carrying at the top of the Greek state, a personality come from Makédonia (Macedonia), which very quickly understood the interest of great excavations "to restabilize" the géography of archaéology in its country.

Everyone knows now, on what the spécialists in linguistics, éthnology, history explained for a long time: ancient Makédonia (Macedonia) was, basically, a Greek land, populated individuals speaking a certain Greek and alive since the very old périods in contact with the centers civilizations of south Greece, even if other particular influences and conditions protected there from the life forms that the remainder of Greece gave up gradually.

Most obvious holds with this observation: in 360 BC, when Philip II proclaims king of Macédonia (Makédonia), its country is regarded as barbarian by the Athénians and well of others, and it has just crossed a half century of convulsions and defeats. However thirty three years, with died later of Alexander The Great , Macédonia (Makédonia) conquered the greatest empire which the occident ever knew . One could speak about a "Greek miracle": there would not be here a kind of Macédonian miracle? It is in any case an astonishing continuation of évenements of which we will seek the explanation under certain conditions, by also scanning the exceptional personalities of two men, Philip II and Alexander III. The extreme interêst of the questions raised by the Macédonian history and the at least apparent paradoxes that it reveals, esplic a certain inversion of a prospect: to learn how to also look at the Greek history from the point of view of Makédonia (Macédonia).

Another paradox, the history of Makédonia after Alexander is a succession of battles where the defeats carry it largely on the victories: each time the kingdom tends to recover a real power, alliances are tied to destroy it, and this history finishes, rather quickly, by death, under the blow of the Romans, of the Makédonia kingdom, the first of hellenistic monarchy to collapse. However, these centuries of instability and misfortunes see at the same time an extraordinary flowering, inside Makédonia even: Macédonians kingdoms carry the radiation of Greece until the ends of the known world. And when the kingdom of Makédonia disappearred, its spirit remains in the Roman empire, which can keep the héritage of it. Here it is still necessary to seek the explanation of this paradox in the astonishing vitality of Macédonian creation: she had known to melt the various traditions of Greece with other richnesses borrowed from the conquered countries, to make a good of a universal value of it.

After the ruin of the ancient world during VIIth century BC, the name of Makédonia, at least in its geographical meaning, disappeared of the everyday usage . Only the popular works scholars and legends has the memory of it, associated with the exploits with Alexander The Great and his father, Philip . They is only nine centuries later than a first wave of Antiquity lovers starts to establish a bond between the glorious accounts of the history of Makédonia and the vestiges met on the spot.