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Alexander's tomb : the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Saunders, Nicholas J.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Basic Books, [2006]
Subjects:
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Tomb.
Alexander, > the Great, > 356 B.C.-323 B.C. > Death and burial.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: ghosts in ruins
  • The cloak of immortality
  • Death and dying in Babylon
  • Stealing the body and the Memphis tomb
  • Who moved Alexander's corpse?
  • The Alexandrian mausoleum
  • Ancient visitors
  • The tomb disappears
  • The two-horned lord and medieval whispers
  • Napoleon, Nelson and Alexander's ghost
  • Archaeologists, maps and tombs
  • Alabaster, fantasy, and ancient walls
  • Politics of the dead
  • The eternal quest
  • Afterlife.