Alexander the Great´s mummy

Alexanders tomb and body are relatively well preserved . Further more , the location is very well known to the public, the mummy is as famous as Ramenses II.
 

Yuelang

Banned
to make this happen, first, you must make sure that no Ptolemaic Kings and Roman Emperors abuse Alex's mummy... Second, repeat that with Eastern Roman Empire / Byzantines. Third, if the mummy survive all the way, make sure theres no nut Pope / Patriarch / Bishop who ordered his destruction / burning. Fourth, make sure the Turks also not destroy him as well. Fifth, Rinse and repeat with Protestant leaders if he end up somewhere in Protestant area...

Sixth and most important, don't let any quack medicine makers turn him into powder in 19th century.

Once the Alex mummy reach 20th century, congratulations for saving him!!!
 
to make this happen, first, you must make sure that no Ptolemaic Kings and Roman Emperors abuse Alex's mummy... Second, repeat that with Eastern Roman Empire / Byzantines. Third, if the mummy survive all the way, make sure theres no nut Pope / Patriarch / Bishop who ordered his destruction / burning. Fourth, make sure the Turks also not destroy him as well. Fifth, Rinse and repeat with Protestant leaders if he end up somewhere in Protestant area...

Sixth and most important, don't let any quack medicine makers turn him into powder in 19th century.

Once the Alex mummy reach 20th century, congratulations for saving him!!!

I enjoyed reading this :D
 
According to what I've read, Ptolemy took Alexander's mummy to Egypt, where it stayed until late antiquity. It's said that Augustus accidentally knocked Alexander's nose off when he visited the tomb, and that Nero took his breast plate for himself. It seems to disappear after 211, when Caracalla visited the tomb, the first person to do so after his father, Alexander Severus, closed it off to the public. It's possible his body was lost during the Crisis of the Third Century, or stolen by the Palymrenes and never recovered. His tomb was apparently still standing in Alexandria until the 1600s, but was lost after that.
 

Yuelang

Banned
some hypothesis actually tell us that the most likely culprit was none other than Clement of Alexandria. He organizes a Christian mob to rob Alexander's tomb and burn his body.
 
I once came across a book with a rather interesting theory: that the body of Alexander is still around, but in St. Mark’s cathedral in Venice, venerated as the remains of St. Mark.

The line of thinking went from the fact we have reports from the Mausoleum complex surviving virtually untouched all through 365 AD, when a terrible earthquake in the eastern Mediterranean brought down much of Alexandria, and we have Libanius’ last mention of the body being venerated in 391 AD.

Now, by coincidence, the earliest report of the martyrdom of St. Mark do not mention the actual burial site of the saint’s relics after they were rescued from the pagans who were about to burn them; and once these were made, the “tomb” fell in a location that was close (perhaps too close) to the now ruined mausoleum complex. Furthermore, there are also accounts that mention the body of the saint, contrary to tradition, was actually burnt (Chronicon Pascale.) Needless to say, the earliest accounts date from the late 4th century.

Short story long, and though I do it no justice, the book holds that someone might have switched the body and miraculously produced the remains of “St. Mark” if only to spare them from destruction.
 
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