Greece holds breath as skeleton found in Alexander-era tomb

Archaeologists are holding their breath that a skeleton found in a mysterious, richly-decorated tomb from the time of Alexander the Great will solve the riddle of whom ancient Greece's biggest burial mound was built for.

Having dug their way past huge decapitated sphinxes, broken through a wall guarded by two caryatids and emptied out an antechamber decorated with stunning mosaics, experts have finally found the body it was all built for, the Greek Culture Ministry said Wednesday.

The bones were found scattered around a wooden coffin in the third room of the vast mound near Amphipolis in northern Greece.