One of these is of such immense proportions and so magnificent that it was thought to be the tomb of some Assyrian ... that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this ...

At the age of 32, the famed Macedonian king Alexander the Great died in Babylon in ... and it is believed that it held Alexander’s tomb. Nectanbo II’s sarcophagus is now housed at the British ...