The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great
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This updated and extended account lays bare the forgotten secrets of one of the greatest mysteries bequeathed to us by the ancient world.
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Parian Marble Marmor Parium: However, the last fragment is complete until BC. It was found in and is now in the Paros museum. Paros was part of the Ptolemaic Empire, ruled by Philadelphus, when the Marble was set up. Greek travel writer of the mid-2nd century AD, perhaps from Lydia. His principal work is the Description of Greece. Greek essayist and scholar of the 1st to early 2nd century AD. His Life of Alexander is the most biographical of the surviving ancient sources and drew upon a wider range of primary sources than any other work.
His earlier essays on the Virtue or Fortune of Alexander are also important biographical sources on the King. Ptolemy Ptolemaios I Soter: Greek geographer of the late 1st century BC and early 1st century AD. He lived in Alexandria for around 5 years and gave the most important description of the city as it was when he saw it in about 20BC in his 17th book. Suetonius Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus: Author of The Twelve Caesars, which is a scandalous, but accurate, set of biographies of the first twelve Roman Princes from Julius Caesar to Domitian.
He wrote when they were safely dead in the early 2nd century AD. Director of the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria from and again from Author of the theory that the Alabaster Tomb is the antechamber of a tomb of Alexander the Great. Author of numerous archaeological works on Alexandria including a reconstructed map of the ancient city. Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg: They included a beautiful chart of Alexandria, which, despite some distortions, contains much valid information on the early 16th century city. Director of the Graeco-Roman Museum in Alexandria from Author of Alexandrea ad Aegyptum, an important guide book to the ancient city and the remains in the Museum and an article on the tomb French artist and traveller.
Visited Alexandria and drew many important vistas and a map in English scholar and traveller.
Author of The Tomb of Alexander published in Associate of Napoleon and foremost among the scholars who accompanied the French expedition to Egypt in Author of Travels in Egypt. Later Director of the Louvre. Author of Ptolemaic Alexandria, a mine of information on the ancient city. English archaeologist of the late 19th and early 20th century.
The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great
Author of an influential report in , which concluded that archaeological resources were better directed elsewhere than Alexandria. Leading French Egyptologist of the 20th century and a specialist in the Memphite necropolis of Saqqara. Moorish traveller in Africa, who was captured by pirates in and ended up in the service of Pope Leo X, who converted him to Christianity.
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His Description of Africa remained the best general account of the continent for centuries, and it included a description of Alexandria, which he probably visited several times between c. Mahmoud Bey El Falaki: Discoverer and excavator of the Serapeum at Saqqara. Artist employed in by Sir Robert Ainslie, British Ambassador in Constantinople, for a project to draw a large collection of scenes from around the Ottoman Empire. The fruits of the expedition were published between about as a magnificent series of aquatinted engravings, including many views of Alexandria. Also Emperor of France. Early 18th century English antiquarian and traveller.
Author of the Description of the East published in , he had paced around the walls of Alexandria in Alan John Bayard Wace: In BC Philip destroyed opposition to his authority from Athens and Thebes at the battle of Chaeronea, where Prince Alexander led a dashing charge and annihilated the Theban Sacred Band, who had been considered the finest soldiers in Greece.
When his father was assassinated by Pausanias in BC, Alexander succeeded to the throne.
Alexandria's founded by Alexander
He crushed insurrections among the tribes to the north, marching as far as the Danube. Thebes and Athens took advantage of his absence to foment rebellion among the city-states, but he retaliated with lightning speed, bringing his army south by forced marches through the mountains.
In May he decisively defeated the Persian armies of the region of modern Turkey at the River Granicus. By the Summer of the following year all the Greek states had duly been liberated, but Alexander continued to prosecute the war by marching towards the heart of the Persian Empire.
Darius, the Great King, had gathered an enormous Persian host and the armies clashed on the shores of the Gulf of Issus, which was the highway into Syria. Darius fled back to Persia to raise a further army. Alexander marched down the Levantine coast, besieging and capturing Tyre and Gaza and closing all the Mediterranean ports to the Persian fleet, which was eventually compelled to surrender. In Egypt, where Persian rule had been particularly oppressive since its conquest ten years earlier, Alexander was welcomed as a deliverer.