Dorothy King is an American renowned archaeologist and historian, living and working in England.
She is also a blogger (her blog is entitled PhDiva) and writer, taking on political and historical matters in her own vertical as well as conservative way. Miss King is not your typical academic, as she is not afraid to speak her mind and her interviews or statements always make headlines in newspapers and TV.
Dorothy King is a supporter of the return of the Parthenon marbles retained by Britain, to Greece. For said reason she has repeatedly slammed the UK government for not allowing the Elgin marbles to go back to Greece.
This time her interview for the Geek newspaper “Ethnos tis Kyriakis”, which apart from the findings in Amphipolis, referred to the on-going name dispute between FYROM and Greece on the use of the term “Macedonia”, instigated a major twitter dispute, which led to several FYROM nationals, calling her “Greek prostitute who hides the truth.”
“The Macedonians invaded and conquered Skopje, but Alexander conquered Iran and Afghanistan as well. None of these two other countries ever claimed to be Macedonia,” King told Ethnos.
“Amphipolis is in Macedonia, Vergina is in Macedonia and Macedonia is in Greece. To claim the opposite is so ridiculous. It is like saying that Jesus went to America.”
Dorothy King has also shared the same views on her blog. After receiving threats and being bullied on twitter, King broke her silence and shared the spiteful tweets.
“Seriously? Send me threats because I’m a “Greek prostitute” hiding the truth about Macedonia,” she added.
“I would rather be a Greek whore than a ‘Skopjedonian'[FYROM national],” she continued. “I think it would be more fun,” she wrote and explained that the past few days, she’s had to block some FYROM nationals from her social media.
“Too bad we do not use their energy to do something more productive,” King Said.