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According to a study published in 2000, the style of the artifacts of the royal tomb date 317 BCE., a generation after Philip II's assassinations.

Moreover, according to paleoanthropologist Antonis Bartsiokas of the Anaximandrian Institute of Human Evolution at the Democritus University of Thrace in Voula, Greece, and assistant professor at the Democritus who used a technique called macrophotography to study the skeleton in meticulous detail, the features identified by Musgrave, Prag, and Neave are simply normal anatomical quirks, accentuated by the effects of cremation and a poor reassembly of the remains.

" The bump, for example ," says Bartsiokas, " is part of the opening in the skull's frontal bone called the supraorbital notch, through which a bundle of nerves and blood vessels pass.

" Most people can feel this notch by pressing their fingers underneath the ridge of bone beneath the eyebrow.

The bone at the site of the " injury " is simply the frontal notch and also shows no signs of healing in the bone fabric, a problem for Bartsiokas given that the wound was inflicted 18 years before Philip II's death.