Nakena wrote:Loben The 2nd wrote:Do the Macadon's possess secret ancient manuscripts about defeating a nuclear armed country?
do they at least have the budget to rearm their military for NATO Standards?
The grave of Alexander is supposed to be somewhere in Egypt. (?) So any ancient secrets that may come with it might be there.
Cairo-based archaeologist comes to the rescue!
After Alexander died, his funeral cortege set out for Macedonia, but was hijacked by his former general Ptolemy I, first ruler of the Ptolemaic dynasty of Egypt.
Ptolemy I buried Alexander at Egypt's traditional capital of Memphis, but Alexandria soon took over as the main urban centre of Ptolemaic Egypt, and Ptolemy II moved the body to the coastal capital. Ptolemy IV then moved the body a final time, though keeping it in Alexandria.
Thanks to visits by various Roman emperors from Julius Caesar (alright, technically not an emperor; let's not quibble) onwards, we have a fairly good historical record of the tomb through to the early 3rd century AD, when Caracalla - who was obsessed with Alexander - seems to have shuffled some objects around in the tomb (or at least those objects that hadn't been previously looted by Caligula). After that the details become murky, with some late classical visitors to Alexandria saying they couldn't locate the tomb, but some early Muslim visitors in the early medieval period claiming it was still standing.
The best we can say is that Alexander was eventually buried in Alexandria, and that his tomb became the centre of the Ptolemaic cult of the Divine Alexander. Some 200 years after the Roman conquest of Egypt, it vanishes from the reliable continuous historical record, and there's little hint of why.
Some modern studies have since tried to claim that Alexander was buried in Vergina after all, or perhaps Egypt's Siwa oasis (an important religious centre where some classical sources state Alexander wanted to be buried), but given the fairly good historical record of burial site from the original kidnapping of his body through to the early 3rd century, these seem highly unlikely.