Saunders, Nicholas J.

Alexander's tomb : the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror / Two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror Nicholas J. Saunders. - New York : Basic Books, c2006. - p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 tombs -- Politics of the dead -- The eternal quest -- Afterlife.

046507202X : $26.00

2006000973


Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. --Tomb.
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C. --Death and burial.

DF234.2 / .S28 2006

938/.07092

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