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In 48 BC, Alexander's tomb in Alexandria was visited by Caesar. [5] To finance her war against Octavian , Cleopatra VII took gold from the tomb. [ 13 ] Shortly after the death of Cleopatra, Alexander's resting place was visited by Augustus , who is said to have placed flowers on the tomb and a golden diadem upon Alexander's head. [ 3 ]
Shortly after the death of Cleopatra, Alexander's tomb was visited by Augustus, who is said to have placed flowers on the tomb and a golden diadem upon Alexander's head. [41] By the 4th century AD, the location of Alexander's body was no longer known; later authors, such as Ibn Abd al-Hakam , Al-Masudi and Leo Africanus , report having seen ...
With the symbols of the tomb and the Lighthouse, the Ptolemies promoted the legend of Alexandria as an element of their legitimacy to rule. [ 3 ] Alexandria was intended to supersede Naucratis as a Hellenistic center in Egypt, and to be the link between Greece and the rich Nile Valley .
Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus all visited the tomb in Alexandria where Augustus, allegedly, accidentally knocked the nose of Alexander's mummified body off. Caligula was said to have taken Alexander's breastplate from the tomb for his own use. Around AD 200, Emperor Septimius Severus closed Alexander's tomb to
The emperor Claudius (ruled 41–54 AD) is recorded to have built an addition onto the Library, [93] but it seems that the Library of Alexandria's general fortunes followed those of the city of Alexandria itself. [94] After Alexandria came under Roman rule, the city's status and, consequently that of its famous Library, gradually diminished. [94]
A significant discovery in Cleopatra’s alleged tomb may have just revealed additional information about the ancient queen. When archaeologist Kathleen Martinez led her Egyptian-Dominican team to ...
Persephone tomb in Kom el-Shoqafa, 2nd century CE. [ 8 ] At the front of the tomb chamber there is a temple-like façade consisting of two columns topped by papyrus , lotus , and acanthus leaves of ancient Egypt and supporting an architrave with a relief of a central winged sun-disk flanked by Horus falcons.
The tomb’s site, which includes a chamber formed by nine upright stones and a capstone estimated to weight more than 27 tons, has been linked to King Arthur since before the 13 th century, ...