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It seems to have been found among the possessions of Mithridates that the inhabitants of Kos had received from Cleopatra III of Egypt." [12] In 48 BC, Alexander's tomb in Alexandria was visited by Caesar. [5] To finance her war against Octavian, Cleopatra VII took gold from the tomb. [13]
Shortly after the death of Cleopatra, Alexander's tomb was visited by Augustus, who is said to have placed flowers on the tomb and a golden diadem upon Alexander's head. [41] By the 4th century AD, the location of Alexander's body was no longer known; later authors, such as Ibn Abd al-Hakam , Al-Masudi and Leo Africanus , report having seen ...
Archaeologists identified skeletons found in an ancient tomb as the royal lineage of Alexander the Great, including his father and son, dating back 2,300 years.
This brutal order seems to have been carried out even beyond the letter, for a general massacre ensued. According to historian Cassius Dio, over 20,000 people were killed. In the 3rd century AD, Alexander's tomb was closed to the public, and now its location has been forgotten.
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered what they believe to be the remains of an Ancient Greek courtesan. 2,300-year-old tomb found in Israel may contain remains of Greek courtesan Skip to main ...
It has never been found. Alexander died without having ever lost a battle, and while his empire soon splintered, for centuries, the official language of administration in the area remained Greek.
Alexander's invasion of Persia as a whole has been denoted as a supreme example of a "strategic line" of conducting war, a line formed by "the chain of logic that connects operations into a single whole." In his book Strategy, Soviet military officer and theorist Alexander Svechin delineates Alexander's strategic steps. After securing his Greek ...
Researchers at Panama’s El Caño Archaeological Park found an ancient tomb filled with gold offerings and sacrificial victims buried to accompany a dead elite leader.