Pakistan, Sept. 27 -- A recent news post, headlined "2300 Year Old Aristotle School Discovered in Greece," drew fresh attention to the ancient educational complex at Mieza in northern Greece, where Aristotle taught the young Alexander the Great. Archaeological research has actually been continuing there for years, with renewed excavations since 2024 revealing lecture spaces, stone benches, a palaestra, a stadium, long covered walkways, banquet halls, mosaics, coins and even writing styluses.

The latest findings have strengthened the scholarly association of the fourth century BC Royal Gymnasium with the education of Alexander and other Macedonian youths under Aristotle. More than two millennia later, the remains still remind us of someth...