For centuries, the location of Alexander the Great’s tomb has remained one of the most baffling and captivating mysteries in ...

One of his generals, Ptolemy, got control of Alexander the Great's body and brought it to Memphis, Egypt, in 321 B.C., Chris Naunton, an Egyptologist who is director of the U.K.-based Robert ...

When the carriage arrived in the Levant, however, Ptolemy, the future king of Egypt, diverted the cortege and took the sarcophagus to Memphis in Egypt. Alexander’s body was initially entombed ...

Egypt was already ancient when Alexander conquered it from the Persians in 332 before the common era. He made his way down from Gaza, and was crowned at the Temple of Ptah at Memphis and then was ...