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I have read English translation of Plutarch history of Alexander written in 75 AD.
Alexander was not injured during the battle with Porus. He was injured in a battle near modern day Multan. His admiral Nearchus sailed along the Makran coast and main army marched on land.
Alexander was very much alive when he reached Susa in 324 BC. He died of fever in 323 BC at Babylon.
Ptolemy stole his body which was being carried to Pella and took it to Egypt to be buried at Memphis. Alexander’s body was taken to Alexandria by Ptolemy II and reburied. Historical records show that Alexander’s tomb was visited by Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus. Tomb was open to public until AD 200 until closed by the emperor Septimus Serevus in 200AD.
People have in the past written fables about Alexander. For example Firdausi in Shahnameh mentions that Alexander visited Kaaba. But Firdausi was a poet not a historian thus allowed “poetic licence”
Alexander buried at Peshawar! Don’t know who is writing this distorted version of history and what will they gain by teaching such nonsense. It implies that Pompey, Julius Caesar & Augustus Caesar were all ignorant and wasting their time by paying homage to a fictitious person!
However, fabrication of history is nothing new. For example Imam Ali (RA) was martyred in Kufa and buried at Najaf, a short distance away. There was no dispute until a local mullah in the 12th Century (500 years later) dreamed up that Hazrat Ali (RA) was secretly buried near Balkh in Afghanistan and Sultan Sanjar built a tomb there; the place is today called Mazaar Sharif. How the body of Hazrat Ali (RA) ended up nearly 3000 kilometres away from Kufa is never asked.
Naïve people will believe anything.
Alexander was not injured during the battle with Porus. He was injured in a battle near modern day Multan. His admiral Nearchus sailed along the Makran coast and main army marched on land.
Alexander was very much alive when he reached Susa in 324 BC. He died of fever in 323 BC at Babylon.
Ptolemy stole his body which was being carried to Pella and took it to Egypt to be buried at Memphis. Alexander’s body was taken to Alexandria by Ptolemy II and reburied. Historical records show that Alexander’s tomb was visited by Pompey, Julius Caesar and Augustus. Tomb was open to public until AD 200 until closed by the emperor Septimus Serevus in 200AD.
People have in the past written fables about Alexander. For example Firdausi in Shahnameh mentions that Alexander visited Kaaba. But Firdausi was a poet not a historian thus allowed “poetic licence”
Alexander buried at Peshawar! Don’t know who is writing this distorted version of history and what will they gain by teaching such nonsense. It implies that Pompey, Julius Caesar & Augustus Caesar were all ignorant and wasting their time by paying homage to a fictitious person!
However, fabrication of history is nothing new. For example Imam Ali (RA) was martyred in Kufa and buried at Najaf, a short distance away. There was no dispute until a local mullah in the 12th Century (500 years later) dreamed up that Hazrat Ali (RA) was secretly buried near Balkh in Afghanistan and Sultan Sanjar built a tomb there; the place is today called Mazaar Sharif. How the body of Hazrat Ali (RA) ended up nearly 3000 kilometres away from Kufa is never asked.
Naïve people will believe anything.
