Alexander's Tomb by Nicholas J Saunders

Alexander's Tomb by Nicholas J Saunders

Author:Nicholas J Saunders
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780465006212
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2016-05-21T00:00:00+00:00


Bust of Alexander from Alexandria now in the British Museum. It portrays an idealized Alexander with windswept, tousled hair, fleshy lips and pronounced chin, and dates to around 250 B.C.E.

© Nicholas J. Saunders

All that remains of the Mausoleum today. It survived largely intact until damaged by earthquakes in the 13th century C.E. In 1494, the Knights of St. John of Malta quarried the site to strengthen the defenses of nearby Bodrum Castle.

© Nicholas J. Saunders

Reconstruction of the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus (modern Bodrum), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, built around 351 B.C.E. It was seen by Alexander in 334, and may have influenced the funeral pyre he built for Hephaestion as well as his own several tombs in Alexandria.

© Candace Smith



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