Egypt Archaeologists May Have Found Alexander the Great’s Tomb

Greek Worls Reporter ^ | Nikoleta Kalmouki

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Of Interest!

[blam]

Researchers Have Solved The Mystery Of How The Egyptians Made The Pyramids

[thesearethetimes...]

BookMark

[Theoria]

Reminds me of the walking Easter Island statues. The scientist looked at the paintings for the clues on the pyraminds, and the locals knew the statues 'walked' on Easter Island.

[JRandomFreeper]

He had an arrow wound that should show up on the skeletal remains.

/johnny

[tumblindice]

We went out a few times, but he wasn't that great.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks! And what a great weekly Digest ping!

Finally -- the rumor that it had not been destroyed but hidden away has persisted down the centuries. The sarcophagus was robbed, obviously, but it's probable that these are the surviving bones of Alexander the Great. I believe that bone fragments were also recovered from the tomb of his father in Macedonia...

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My Pleasure, Sunken Civ! :-)

[SunkenCiv]

FR Canteen ~ Alexander The Great: Conclusion ~ January 13, 2004
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/fr/1056860/posts

> Some centuries later, Alexander’s golden sarcophagus was melted down for coinage by the Ptolomius XI (116-107, 87-81 B.C.) and replaced with one of alabaster. Strabo (17. C 794), who visited Alexander’s tomb himself in the first century A.D.

Greek language engravings discovered in Alexandria
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/1706444/posts?page=8#8

> [Young Werther] 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!

Macedonia’s ‘Indiana Jones’ Won’t Rest Until He Finds Alexander’s Tomb
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2962487/posts

> “We opt for the second theory, that there is a grave in Egypt but that Alexander is not there because on the request of his mother, Olympia, the sarcophagi were replaced and one coffin was sent to Egypt, while the other traveled to Macedonia, where Alexander is buried.

[Chainmail]

Cool.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

If true—this is one of the greatest finds in Western Civilization.

[crz]

Wow! They have been looking for that since... The other thing is the tragic burning of the library there by the Romans.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks blam. This looks like a winner for the moving of those massive one-piece statues, but doesn’t do much for the pyramind construction. :’)

http://www.livescience.com/45285-how-egyptians-moved-pyramid-stones.html

[Dr. Sivana]

Now someone has to make sure the Moslems don’t destroy it.

[Jemian]

I wonder of there is any way of determining whether it was malaria that killed him. As a malaria sufferer, I am curious. This is a fascinating find.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Glass coffin filled with honey. Glass broken, honey gone. Sounds plausible.

[Little Ray]

No pictures?

[wildbill]

I agree it is a great find. Which gives me an idea.

Sunken Civ, why don’t you put together a poll to find out how FRreepers rate the top 10 (or 20) archeological finds of past 200 years. Survey Monkey has a very easy step by step process for producing your own poll and it’s free.

I trust Sunken Civ to have all the great ones at his fingertips, but he could ask for suggestions from his GGG mailing list.

[SunkenCiv]

The Romans didn’t burn the library, it existed for centuries thereafter.