Ancient City
Amphipolis
am-FIP-uh-liss · Modern Amfipoli, Serres, Greece · 40.8180° N, 23.8400° E
Amphipolis was a major Macedonian city on the Via Egnatia that Paul, Silas, and Timothy passed through — without stopping to preach — on their way from Philippi to Thessalonica (Acts 17:1), likely because it had no synagogue.
Archaeology
Founded as an Athenian colony in 437 BC, later Macedonian and then a Roman provincial capital. Post-WWII excavations uncovered city walls, a necropolis, basilicas, and the acropolis. The famous Lion of Amphipolis (a 4th-century BC tomb monument, reassembled in 1937) and the separately excavated, much-debated Kasta Tomb mound are the site's best-known features.
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