What happened to Alexander's tomb?

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Sources:
Chugg, A. M. (2004), The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great, London.
Erskine, A. (2002), ‘Life after Death: Alexandria and the Body of Alexander,’ Greece and Rome 49 (2), 163-179.
Saunders, N. J. (2006), Alexander’s Tomb, New York.

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#Documentary #Alexander #Philip

[HxHDRA]

"I came to see a king not a bunch of corpses" *GODDAMN*
Unironically top 10 historical burns

[alexanderthegreat]

Man, this Alexander must be really important.

[tppcrpg]

"I came to see a king not a bunch of corpses" Damm respect

[napoleonibonaparte]

Jeez. The body of Alexander has seen more destruction than that in Alexander’s conquests.

[Krahovnir]

I hate to think that his body was found and was simply judged to be a mummified nobody and discarded.

[Marshal_Rock]

Can you imagine venetians worshiping Alexander instead of St. Mark? That would kind of hilarious.

[marvelfannumber]

I really like these videos. The usual military history is great of course, but it is a tad bit oversaturated in the YouTube history scene, so it's nice to see some different types of history being presented here too. I did notice one mistake though, the Roman Empire was not divided in 330, the main thing that happened that year was that the capital of the united Roman Empire was moved from Mediolanum to Constantinople. Constantine was at the time the sole Emperor.

[FreedomFighter]

Interesting fact: Alexander payed his respects to Cyrus the Great's tomb:

"Alexander the Great rode into the city of Pasargadae with his most elite cavalry in their bronze, muscle-sculpted body armor, carrying long spears. Some of his infantry and archers followed. The small city, in what is today Iran, was lush and green. Alexander had recently conquered India. Greece, Macedonia, Asia Minor and parts of Egypt were all part of his new empire. The people of Pasargadae likely expected the worst—when the world’s most dangerous cavalry shows up on your street, you are probably going to have a bad day. But he hadn’t come to fight (the city was already his).
The world’s most powerful ruler had come to pay tribute to someone else.

The young conqueror was looking for a tomb containing the remains of Cyrus the Great. But it had recently been ransacked (probably for political reasons). Alexander the Great was furious. An investigation was launched, trials were held.
Alexander ordered the tomb’s contents replaced and restored. According to one Greek historian, this included “a great divan with feet of hammered gold, spread with covers of some thick, brightly colored material, with a Babylonian rug on top. Tunics and a Median jacket of Babylonian workmanship were laid out on the divan, and Median trousers, various robes dyed in amethyst, purple, and many other colors, necklaces, scimitars, and inlaid earrings of gold and precious stones. A table stood by it, and in the middle of it lay the coffin which held Cyrus’s body."

[battlesoftheancients]

Fun Fact: Rome vs Alexander: who would win?

The question of who would have emerged victorious if Alexander the Great had headed west rather than east and faced the Romans in battle is one that fascinated Roman scholarly thinking for centuries (Livy even engages in this alternative history in book 9, section 19 of his histories that you can access on Perseus).

Indeed, when Pyrrhus, king of the Molossian tribe in Epirus, arrived in southern Italy in 281 BC and began his epic war against Rome, later Roman sources (including the Greek Plutarch who was writing during the Roman Imperial Period) would depict Pyrrhus (quite rightly) as an 'Alexander imitatio' - a second coming Alexander and the man who, out of all the Hellenistic warlords that followed Alexander, most closely resembled the conqueror both in regards to his charisma and military ability.

This was why the Pyrrhic War became so important to the Romans - in their eyes it was the closest they ever came to fighting Alexander the Great himself in battle.

Who do you think would have won if Alexander had faced the Romans in battle?

I'm sure this goes without saying but I want to thank Ilkin, Nurlan, Cogito, Devin and Malay Archer. Without these guys, videos such as this and the epic siege of Rhodes would not have been possible.

Also want to make a quick note that the Roman Empire at 330 was not divided as Constantine had re-unified it - made a small error there! It was later divided again at the death of Theodosius.

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[degenerate]

Napoleon finds everything while he's in Egypt

[gabrieltheredlion]

Alexander will always remain the most badass General-King that ever existed imo.

[crmessonk]

At Cadiz Caesar saw a statue of Alexander the Great in the Temple of Hercules, and was overheard to sigh impatiently (it is said he that he cried): vexed, it seems, that at an age when Alexander had already conquered the whole world, he himself had done nothing in the least epoch-making.

[Kees]

Thank you for this episode. A lot of men love the tale of the great conqueror so long ago. His life was unique and now we know even his body had a lingering effect of power.

[b]

Didn't they find the tomb of Philip II in Greece a while back? They could probably compare the DNA from bones in that tomb to any future finds (or the body in Venice) .

[StefanMilo]

More twists and turns than a soap opera! Great video!

[Aristotelis_Hellas]

Thank you for this great video. I surely share it! Greetings from Macedonia region, Greece 🔆🇬🇷

[LocalHeretic-ckkd]

Well I have to admit that these videos are a great suprise to me. I always assumed
( and my history teacher in high school told me the same if I remember correctly )
that body of Alexander the great was lost during Diadochi wars.
I learned a lot from this. Thanks KG!

[VoidViper]

"I came to see a king, not a bunch of corpses"

[nekotamo]

It is an exciting thought that even now, almost two and a half millennia after his death, the final chapter in Alexander's epic life has not yet been written and won't be until we find his body.

[secretscipio]

Imagine the shock if it is discovered that alleged St Mark is actually Alexander the Great.