To: Young Werther
IIRC, the Egyptians made Ptolemy a Pharoah under the condition that he bring Alexander's bones to Egypt, as Alexander was considered a god there.
7 posted on
09/22/2006 12:25:19 PM PDT by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: lesser_satan
Legend has it that Alexander's Sarcophogus was crystalline and that he was "buried in the Euphrates river. There is a competing legend that he sarcopogus was carried back to Egypt and taken out to the desert and buried with the Pharohs at, I think Hamunaptra! Supposedly Mark Anthony was taken there by Cleopatra's priests to kneel at Alexanders sarcophogus!
Ain't history fun?
To: lesser_satan
iirc didn't seutonius (spelling not sure, author of the 12 caesars) claim that caligula was reported to have opened alexanders tomb (in egypt) and later to have taken the shield found within the tomb and carried it around with him?
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