Alexander's tunic found in tomb
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•'Purple tunic' from royal tomb belonged to Alexander the Great, scholar claims — but not everyone agrees
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The garment was found in 1977 in a gold chest in a tomb near the town of Vergina (formerly the capital of Macedonia ) in what is now Greece .
It's next to two other tombs thought to hold other royal members of Alexander 's family.
A new study contends that tests done by other scholars show that the garment was a sarapis, or a tunic.
Archaeologists say there is no evidence to support the idea that this garment was a tunic.
Other scholars are more supportive of the paper and its findings.
"This article is full with faulty understandings due to a lack of the relevant background," one archaeologist says.
The cotton used to make the garment could have been imported through trade from Persia .
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