A newly discovered fit between a piece of ancient tomb from the foundations of St Mark’s in Venice and a sarcophagus in the British Museum may confirm the location and appearance of the tomb of Alexander the Great.It presents arguments that a) Alexander’s first tomb was located in the Nectanebo II temple at the Memphite Serapeum and that the sarcophagus prepared for Nectanebo II (now in the British Museum) was used to house Alexander’s body, b) The famous tomb of Alexander in Alexandria was contained within an enclosure that had been the walls of Alexander’s original foundation of the city and that eventually became incorporated in the eastern section of the walls of medieval Alexandria, c) That Alexander’s mausoleum stood near the central crossroads of the ancient city and had a form similar to the Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, d) That there is a possibility that the putative mummified body of St Mark the Evangelist, transported from Alexandria to Venice in AD828, is the corpse of Alexander, re-labelled for its preservation, when the worship of pagan gods was banned by the emperor Theodosius in AD392.
This lecture was presented during my recent lecture tour of Australia (20/10/18-30/10/18) at a lecture on the evening of Monday 22nd October at Northern Metropolitan TAFE’s Technical College in Leederville in Perth before an audience of about 200 people, mainly from the Australian Greek Community and was repeated at Alphington Grammar School in Melbourne on the afternoon of Thursday 25th October and at the AHEPA Hall in Rockdale, Sydney on the evening of Saturday 27th October.
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