Calliope Limneos Papakosta is an archaeologist who directs the Hellenic research institute
of the Alexandrian civilization.
She has been searching for more than 20 years in the hopes of finding the tomb of alexander
the great.
It is her dream to find the tomb of the king of Macedon, and she may have just discovered
alexander the great’s final resting place, which until now has been lost to history and
forgotten.
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When alexander the great was young, he was tutored by Aristotle.
Then Alexander the third became the king of Macedon in 336 BC when he was only 20 years
old, after his father phillip the second was assassinated.
He launched an initiative to lead the greeks in the conquest of Persia.
After 10 years of campaigns, he succeeded, and overthrew the Persian king Darius the
3rd.
By then, his empire spawned from the Adriatic sea to the indus river.
He invaded Egypt as well as india in 326 BC after vowing to reach the ends of the world
and the great outer sea.
Alexander the great in Babylon in 323 BC.
His body was placed in a gold sarchofagus filled with honey.
But when alexander’s funeral cortege was making its way to macedon, the roman emperor
Ptolemy seized it and took it to Memphis, Egypt, and then in Alexandria.
His tomb was visited by many as though it was a temple of a god.
And rightfully so, alexander was a brave and intelligent leader, a legend in many people’s
eyes.
They didnt call him alexander the ok or alexander the meh.
I mean he wasn’t called alexander the great for nothing.
But Alexandria was destroyed in 356 AD by a tsunami that walloped the city.
The sea inched north, aand the flooding nile delta river caused the ancient part of alexanddria
to slowly sink at a rate of 0.25 centimeters per year.
Its sunk up to 12 feet since alexander was in power.
The city as a whole still exists, new buildings were built over the ancient parts.
The population of Alexandria is now over 5 million.
But the new Alexandria was likely built over top of its founder’s tomb.
Its location is still a mystery.
But according to a report from National Geographic, archeologists are closing in on the location
of alexander the great’s tomb.
For 14 years, Calliope had been looking for his final resting place at Shallalat Gardens,
a public park in the middle of Alexandria Egypt, a city named after alexander the great.
After a long dig in the hot sun, Calliope was about to give up, when a bit of soil shifted
in the dig pit.
Her assistants called her over to look at a piece of white marble that was sticking
out of the dirt.
It turns out that the piece of marble was an early Hellenistic statue that bore every
hallmark of alexander the great.
7 years later, she dug 35 feet beneath Alexandria Egypt where she found the city’s former
royal quarter.
According to Fredrik Heibert, archologist in residence at the National Geographic society,
this is the first time the original foundations of Alexandria has been found.
He said it gave him goosebumps to see it.
It is believed by many archeologists that this site could be the very site that holds
the lost tomb of alexander the great.
Using a combination of ancient accoutns, a 19th century map of Alexandria and modern
technology, a team of archologists has identified 14 anomilies that very well could be structures
beneath the ground.
Calliope Papakosta had to engineer an elaborate system of pumps and hoses to keep the site
dry enough to excavate.
Even after so long, she believes she is getting closer and closer to finding alexanders lost
tomb.
Can I get an awww yeahh.
I don’t know why but ancient civilizations make me really excited.
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