Alexander's Funeral Cart
Alexander the Great's final resting place is still unknown today. In 324 , a year after he died in Babylon, his body left the city in a gold coffin mounted on a huge funeral cart in the shape of a Greek temple that was pulled by 64 mules. Where it was heading is not certain. Some say Macedonia; some, the Siwa Oasis. Ptolemy I intercepted it and brought it to Egypt. In modern times, this sarcophagus housed in Istanbul. Turkey was said to have once contained Alexander's body. This resconstruction of the funeral cart was done by the German Archaeological Institute in the late 1800s.
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