[blam]

"'Some' don't know what they're talking about. That he died from a febrile illness is known from surviving accounts. But it certainly wasn't in Egypt, it was in Persia! He hadn't been in Egypt in years. "

Did Alexander The Great Die From West Nile?
(Most accounts say he died in Babylon)

Makes no difference to me.

[JohnBovenmyer]

Babylon was part of the Persian Empire... before Alexander annexed it to his empire. The article doesn’t say he died in Egypt. Article speculates cause of death was West Nile, one of many medical speculations as to that over the years. Maybe efforts to read the charcoal briquettes library from Herculaneum will turn up copies of the two lost contemporaneous biographies of Alexander and prove ‘new’ medical clues.