The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great

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Lulu.com, 2007 - History - 317 pages
In 2004 the author's first book, The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great, was published to the accompaniment of international media attention, since it reported the first credible suggestion as to the current whereabouts of the long-vanished corpse of the illustrious conqueror. In the intervening years, direct progress on testing of the candidate remains has been thwarted by the Church authorities, yet much new information has emerged, casting the enigma in an ever more probing light. It may turn out to be the greatest archaeological story of the century, for nobody has yet been able to refute the author's novel suggestion that the body stolen from Alexandria in AD828 and now in Venice may have acquired a false identity in the 4th century AD. This updated and extended account lays bare the forgotten secrets of one of the greatest mysteries bequeathed to us by the ancient world. Includes the author's several published academic articles on the subject as Appendices. Over 80 illustrations.
 

Contents

Funeral Games
39
The Capital of Memory
69
The Shrine of the Caesars
90
Vanished from History
110
The Mysteries of the Mosques
129
The Astronomers Chart
151
Alexanders City
168
Famous Alexandrian Mummies
188
Exequies
219
The Journal of Alexander the Great
225
The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great?
246
A Candidate for the First Tomb of Alexander
258
The Tomb of Alexander in Alexandria
271
Bibliography
289
Acknowledgements
301
Copyright

The Sword in the Stone
206

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