The Amphipolis Tomb (also known as the Kasta or CastaTomb) is an ancient Macedonian tomb discovered in Amphipolis, Central Macedonia, in northern Greece in 2012 and first entered in August 2014. The tomb is dated around 300-325 B.C., and it is the largest burial monument ever discovered in Greece.
According to Katerina Peristeri who was the head of the Amphipolis tomb excavation, the monument was a funerary heroon (hero worship shrine) dedicated to Hephaestion, the close companion of Alexander the Great.
Peristeri and her head architect Michalis Lefantzis said they had found three inscriptions with the word "PARELAVON" (meaning "received") and Hephaestion's monogramme.
Archaeologists have also so far unearthed:
Two marble sphinxes approximately that guard the main entrance to the tomb, missing their heads and wings.
Two female statues of the Caryatid type in the antechamber
A marble door, typical of Macedonian tomb doors, broken into pieces in front of the doorway to the third chamber
A mosaic in the third chamber which depicts Persephone abducted by the god Pluto, ruler of the underworld, wearing a laurel wreath and driving a chariot drawn by horses led by the god Hermes, the conductor of souls to the afterlife
It is believed that the Lion of Amphipolis, a monument found decades ago, stood at the top of the tumulus at Casta Hill.

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