Alexander's tomb : the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror
| Parallelsachtitel: |
Two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror |
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| 1. Verfasser: |
Saunders, Nicholas J.
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
New York :
Basic Books,
2007, ©2006.
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| Ausgabe: | Paperback edition. |
| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
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| iDAI.gazetteer: |
Alexandria |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.
