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
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