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

Parallelsachtitel: Two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror
1. Verfasser: Saunders, Nicholas J.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: New York : Basic Books, 2007, ©2006.
Ausgabe: Paperback edition.
Umfang/Format: xiii, 290 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780465072033
0-465-07203-8
Schlagworte:
Alexander (Makedonien, König, III.)
Gräber/Sepulkralbauten > de > Lokalisation.
Alexandria > Orte
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.

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