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    Posted: 24-Jan-2008 at 20:02

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 www.alexanderstomb.com

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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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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.
The Greatest General and our father is resting in peace in his home, guarded very well by his children  the Macedonians. 



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  Quote xristar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 01:05
I think it is almost certain that Alexander was not buried in Macedonia but somewhwere in the east.

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  Quote rider Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 15:42
I believe his tomb is situated in Mesopotamia.
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  Quote Flipper Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 16:40
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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  Quote Vorian Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 17:34
Originally posted by Makedonija

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.
The Greatest General and our father is resting in peace in his home, guarded very well by his children  the Macedonians. 



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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


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  Quote Kamikaze 738 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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...
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  Quote xristar Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 20:55
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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  Quote Antonivs Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06-Mar-2008 at 21:03
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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  Quote Penelope Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 07-Mar-2008 at 00:37
Originally posted by Antonivs

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
 
 
 
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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there is a grave site in Kuwait which is very likely his burial ground, remember in those days kuwait was part of babylon

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  Quote Cyrus Shahmiri Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 08-Mar-2008 at 14:45
Originally posted by baniyas

there is a grave site in Kuwait which is very likely his burial ground, remember in those days kuwait was part of babylon

Do you mean Failaka Island?
 
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  Quote Julius Augustus Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post 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
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  Quote Guests Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 23-Mar-2008 at 18:23
There's much interesting speculation in this thread, but not very much evidence. Confused 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.Wink
 
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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)".



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