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CleopatraĪ limited number of sources provide suggestions about the possible location of Cleopatra’s tomb. This is despite multiple references to it in texts over the next thousand years and modern attempts to identify it. Though contemporary sources record its location at the crossroads of the major north-south and east-west arterial roads of Alexandria, it has never been found. But it was what happened to Alexander following his demise – his ‘life after death’ - which resulted in one of the great archaeological mysteries of the ancient Mediterranean. In his lifetime King Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, forged one of the largest empires in ancient history. There Augustus viewed the body of Alexander in 30 BC, while Emperor Caracalla visited the tomb in 215 AD. He was placed alongside his Ptolemaic successors in a communal tomb.
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This was perhaps done by Ptolemy himself, who proclaimed himself King of Egypt and inaugurated the Ptolemaic dynasty, or by his son and successor.Īlexander was reburied once more in Alexandria by Ptolemy Philopator (222/221-205 BC). He was first buried in Memphis, at an uncertain location, and then in the late 4th or early 3rd century BC, Alexander’s body was reburied in Alexandria. On its way from Babylon in a cart that allegedly took 2 years to construct, his body was intercepted in Syria by Ptolemy, one of Alexander’s generals, and redirected to Egypt.
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After Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 BC, his body underwent a convoluted series of funerary arrangements directed by his generals. Image Credit: PRISMA ARCHIVO / Alamy Stock Photoĭespite Alexander the Great having been buried in at least 3 tombs, none are known to contemporary archaeologists. An impression of Alexander’s funeral procession.