The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great
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Topic: The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great
Posted By: Guests
Subject: The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great
Date Posted: 24-Jan-2008 at 20:02
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I thought I'd let you know that my new book, The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great, has just been published and has become available through www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk in the last few days. It updates and extends the story relative to my first book, The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great, published in June 2004. There are too many new things to describe here, but, for example, there is an entire new chapter on a fragment of a high status Macedonian funerary monument found embedded in the foundations of St Marks in Venice just a few metres from the place where a body brought from Alexandria originally lay. There are more details on my website at http://www.alexanderstomb.com/ - www.alexanderstomb.com Best wishes, Andrew
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Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 24-Jan-2008 at 21:13
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As I said in another thread, there is also a tomb of Alexander in Ecbatana, the summer capital of the Persian and Alexander empires (we know Alexander died in the summer), several Persian and Arab historians have mentioned this tomb, there was even a Greek inscription on the tomb which unfortunately has been lost. "Stone Lion of Chaeronea", Greece (after the battle of Chaeronea in 338 BC) & "Ston Lion of Ecbatana", Iran (after the death of Alexander in 323 BC):
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 00:54
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The answer is very easy. The tomb is in his birth land, in Macedonia and the Macedonian people knows that very well but because of the politics and a war between Macedonia and Greece it is well hiden somewhere in my country Macedonia. You'll see. ------------- |
Posted By: xristar
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 01:05
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I think it is almost certain that Alexander was not buried in Macedonia but somewhwere in the east. ------------- 
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Posted By: rider
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 15:42
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I believe his tomb is situated in Mesopotamia. ------------- |
Posted By: Flipper
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 16:40
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I would guess Mesopotamia too. My second choise Egypt and the third is the area in Greece where many aristocratic Macedonian Aecides were Buried. There's a suspicion that Olympia might have wanted Alexanders body returned to a place near her.
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Posted By: Vorian
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 17:34
 I wouldn't be surprised if some poor bastard's remain are found and dressed up to Alexander the Great's bones. Didn't the Athenians did something like this when the Oracle of Delfi asked them to retrieve Thiseas' bones? Anyway, it was probably lost somewhere in Egypt, imo |
Posted By: Kamikaze 738
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 20:45
| I dont think he is buried in Macedonia or Greece, but instead somewhere in Egypt or somewhere around Turkey... |
Posted By: xristar
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 20:55
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1st) Macedonia is part of Greece 2nd)Turkey? Really? I'd say either Babylon, Iraq (where he died in the first place) or Alexandria, Egypt -------------
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Posted By: Antonivs
Date Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 21:03
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Alexander tomb was in Alexandria (of Egipt).
His body was envoyed to Macedon, but his general, Ptolomeu, robed the body, and came with him to his city, Alexandria.
There, the body of Alexander, rested for several centuries, on a funerary sanctuary (in the middle of Alexandria) called the "Sema" of Alexander.
Eventually his body was profanated:
- Octavianvs robed Alexanders signet ring
- Caligvla robe Alexanders breastplate
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Posted By: Penelope
Date Posted: 07-Mar-2008 at 00:37
Many people also believe that his bones may have been switched with the bones of St. Mark. But ofcourse, the church refuses to allow the remains to be subject to tests.
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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 08-Mar-2008 at 01:21
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there is a grave site in Kuwait which is very likely his burial ground, remember in those days kuwait was part of babylon |
Posted By: Cyrus Shahmiri
Date Posted: 08-Mar-2008 at 14:45
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Posted By: Julius Augustus
Date Posted: 20-Mar-2008 at 06:18
| Ecbatana, isnt this the former capital of the Parthian Empire, I think Hephaeston is burried there instead of Alex |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 23-Mar-2008 at 18:23
There's much interesting speculation in this thread, but not very much evidence.  Yet much evidence exists! If you are interested in the evidence, then the "The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great" will fill you in. You'll be able to comment authoritatively.
Best wishes,
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Posted By: Arthur-Robin
Date Posted: 27-Mar-2019 at 06:36
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This might be a good topic at present, I just saw new news about it in Egyptology group in Linkedin. (There were also a few other threads/topics on this found in forum search http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=17259 http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=6562 http://www.allempires.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=22323 .) Alexander died in Babylon after a drinking contest? There was a tomb/cenotaph of Alexander found in Egypt a few years ago but apparently no body because he is apparently still missing/lost? I haven't looked in to this much yet but a few candidates so far include: Amphipolis (Kasta) tomb https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphipolis http://atlantisonline.smfforfree2.com/index.php/topic,34548.0.html One of the 7 wonders of the world like maybe the Pharos of Alexandria? (Maybe the Pharos ties in with the tomb of St Mark theory? "St Mark" comes from Mercury/Hermes/Thoth (Trismegistus), or Mars, or Mark Antony, or emperor Marcus Aurelius.) Serapeum? The glass coffin mentioned in one post reminded me of Cicero's daughter's body "lay intact in an unknown transparaent liquid". There is a similarity with the tomb of "(King) Arthur" "Arthur's grave not known" / "an eternal wonder is the grave of Arthur" (Black Book of Carmarthen, Stanzas of the Graves), Arthur's grave "nowhere seen" (W. of M.) and of St Patrick "no one knows his sepulchre, nor where he was buried" (HB). (Arthur might be Fred the skeleton found in lead coffin/sracophagus in St Martin le Grand in Dover and now in Dover Painted House museum collection?) Also compare Vortimer buried in brazen pyramid? I'm also reminded of Shugborough ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shugborough_inscription ). Emperor Trajan was called "Alexander (the Great)". ------------- NZ's mandatory fluoridation is not fair because it only forces it on the disadvantaged/some and not on the advantaged/everyone. |