the fourth pharaoh of Ptolemaic Egypt and the great-grandson of Ptolemy I, moved Alexander's body to its final documented resting place: Soma, Alexandria's great mausoleum, according to the book ...
Ancient sources refer to a place known as the Soma (from the Greek σῶμα ... of the Hellenistic world. By 274 BC, Alexander the Great was buried in Alexandria, his tomb becoming the focal ...
Franck Goddio/Hilti Foundation, photo: Christoph Gerigk One of the Seven Wonders of the World, Alexandria's 40 ... marbled metropolis founded by Alexander the Great on the busy streets of this ...