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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]
Royal Tomb of Vergina. The ceremonial shield of the Tombs of Vergina is a decorative shield found in the Royal Tombs at Aigai (now known as Vergina) in Northeast Greece. [1] The shield was found alongside other lavish grave goods and the remains of family members of Alexander the Great, including Philip II of Macedon. The ceremonial shield ...
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.
After Alexander departed, his viceroy, Cleomenes, continued the expansion of the city. In a struggle with the other successors of Alexander, his general, Ptolemy (later Ptolemy I of Egypt) succeeded in bringing Alexander's body to Alexandria. Alexander's tomb became a famous tourist destination for ancient travelers (including Julius Caesar).
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 ...
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.
The Priene inscription is a dedicatory inscription by Alexander the Great, which was discovered at the Temple of Athena Polias in Priene (modern Turkey), in the nineteenth century. It now forms an important part of the British Museum 's Ancient Greek epigraphic collection and provides a direct link to one of the most famous persons in ancient ...
Thutmose II was an ancestor of Tutankhamun, whose reign is believed to have been from about 1493 to 1479 BC. Tutankhamun's tomb was found by British archaeologists in 1922. First pharaoh's tomb ...