The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great (Second Edition)

Framsida
Lulu.com, 1 juni 2012 - 332 sidor
In 2004 the author's first book "The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great" was published to the accompaniment of international media attention, since it reported the first credible suggestion as to the current whereabouts of the long-vanished corpse of the illustrious conqueror. In the intervening years, progress by testing the candidate remains has been thwarted by the Church authorities, yet much new information has emerged, casting the enigma in an ever more probing light. In this extensively updated and extended account, the meanderings of the evidence have been tracked with scrupulous care and the tangled threads of erstwhile hidden history have been teased apart. Thus the forgotten secrets of one of the greatest mysteries bequeathed to us by the ancient world are laid bare, culminating in the novel suggestion that the body stolen from Alexandria in AD828 and now in Venice may have acquired a false identity at the time that paganism was outlawed by the Emperor of Rome in the 4th century AD.

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Funeral Games
39
The Capital of Memory
70
The Shrine of the Caesars
92
Vanished from History
112
The Mysteries of the Mosques
132
The Astronomers Chart
154
Alexanders City
172
Famous Alexandrian Mummies
192
Exequies
227
The Journal of Alexander the Great
233
The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great?
254
A Candidate for the First Tomb of Alexander
266
The Tomb of Alexander in Alexandria
279
Bibliography
297
Acknowledgements
310
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The Sword in the Stone
210

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