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New book: Quest for the tomb
In 2004 the author’s first book The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great was published to the accompaniment of international media attention, since it reported the first credible suggestion as to the current whereabouts of the long-vanished corpse of the illustrious conqueror. In the intervening years, direct progress on testing of the candidate remains has been thwarted by the Church authorities, yet much new information has emerged, casting the enigma in an ever more probing light. In this extensively updated and extended account, the tortuous meanderings of the evidence have been tracked with scrupulous care, thus teasing apart the tangled threads of erstwhile hidden history. In these pages the author lays bare the forgotten secrets of one of the greatest mysteries bequeathed to us by the ancient world. His new perspective will surely fascinate any reader with a sense of curiosity about the past.
It remains significantly possible that the fate of Alexander’s tomb will turn out to be the greatest archaeological story of the 21st century, for nobody has yet been able to refute the author’s novel suggestion that the body stolen from Alexandria in AD828 and now in Venice may have acquired a false identity at the time that paganism was outlawed by the Emperor of Rome in the 4th century AD.
In addition the author’s published academic articles on the subject of Alexander’s mysterious death and elusive tomb are reproduced here as a collection in Appendices to the main narrative. They originally appeared in Greece & Rome, the American Journal of Ancient History and the Ancient History Bulletin between 2002 and 2007.
| Title: | The Quest for the Tomb of Alexander the Great |
| Author: | Andrew Michael Chugg |
| Pages: | 324 |
| Illustrations: | 80 images |
| ISBN: | 978-0-9556790-0-1 |
| Dramatis Personae and Prologue | 1 |
1. | Introduction: Entombment and Apotheosis (click here to view PDF) | 9 |
2. | Death in Babylon XE "Babylon" | 12 |
3. | Funeral Games | 39 |
4. | The Capital of Memory | 69 |
5. | The Shrine of the Caesars | 90 |
6. | Vanished from History | 110 |
7. | The Mysteries of the Mosques | 129 |
8. | The Astronomer’s Chart | 151 |
9. | Alexander’s City | 168 |
10. | Famous Alexandrian Mummies | 188 |
11. | The Sword in the Stone | 206 |
12. | Exequies | 219 |
| Appendix A: The Journal of Alexander the Great | 225 |
| Appendix B: The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great? | 246 |
| Appendix C: A Candidate for the First Tomb of Alexander | 258 |
| Appendix D: The Tomb of Alexander in Alexandria | 271 |
| Bibliography | 289 |
| Acknowledgements | 301 |
| Index | 302 |
The following images are a small sample from a total of over 80 images in the new book:
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The Death of Alexander by André Castaigne | End view of the Alexander Sarcophagus from Sidon | Augustus Caesar venerates the mummy of Alexander in 30BC by Showmer | Cleopatra’s Needles and the Tower of the Romans in Alexandria in 1785 by L-F Cassas | Courtyard of the Attarine Mosque in Alexandria in 1798 from the Description de l’Egypte | Ancient columns outside the Attarine Mosque in Alexandria in 1785 by L-F Cassas |
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| Map of Alexandria in 1785 by L-F Cassas | Hellenistic funerary sculpture of a shield with a starburst motif discovered in the foundations of St Marks in Venice |
The following pdf reproduces a short introductory chapter (Chapter 1) from the new book: Questomb_Intro.pdf
Coming soon!