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Alexander's tomb : the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror / Nicholas J. Saunders.

Saunders, Nicholas J.
2007
DF234.2 .S28 2007 (Mapit)
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Title
Alexander's tomb : the two thousand year obsession to find the lost conqueror / Nicholas J. Saunders.
Author
Saunders, Nicholas J.
Edition
Paperback edition.
ISBN
9780465072033 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0465072038 (pbk. : alk. paper)
046507202X (alk. paper)
9780465072026 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Basic Books, 2007, c2006.
Language
English
Description
xiii, 290 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Call Number
DF234.2 .S28 2007
Dewey Decimal Classification
938/.07092
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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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