{"id":120597,"date":"2023-11-20T18:59:21","date_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/?p=120597"},"modified":"2023-11-20T18:59:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-20T18:59:21","slug":"alexander-the-great-mystery-finally-solved-with-breathtaking-find-at-temple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogcamlodipine.com\/world-news\/alexander-the-great-mystery-finally-solved-with-breathtaking-find-at-temple\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander the Great mystery finally solved with breathtaking find at temple"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tomb of Alexander the Great's mystery 'lover' discovered<\/h3>\n

Historians had racked their brains over Greek inscriptions found at the ancient Sumerian temple of Girsu, which sits in the present-day town of Tello.<\/p>\n

At 4,000 years old, it is ancient and came far before the time of the Ancient Greeks, erected around the same time that Stonehenge was coming together in Britain.<\/p>\n

Archaeologists from the British Museum have now decoded some of the inscriptions and believe a Greek temple to Alexander the Great was founded on the site.<\/p>\n

In a twist of fate, they think that the temple may even have been erected by Alexander himself, transforming the way we look at both the Ancient Greek empire and the man himself.<\/p>\n

A silver coin found near the temple, minted around 330 BCE by Alexander’s troops, hints that the conqueror king may have visited the temple after defeating the Persians in modern-day Iraq.<\/p>\n

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If true, it would make the temples on the site one of Alexander’s last acts before he died at the age of 32.<\/p>\n

The discovery also suggests that Alexander’s contemporaries knew about the previous 4,000-year-old site, which had been abandoned for millennia.<\/p>\n

This would also indicate that ancient societies had accurate historical knowledge and cultural memory, which lends itself to exploring how they may have stored those memories.<\/p>\n

Dr Sebastien Rey, an archaeologist at the British Museum, told The Telegraph: “It is truly mind-blowing. Our discoveries place the later temple in Alexander\u2019s lifetime.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe found offerings, the kinds of offerings that would be given after a battle, figures of soldiers and cavalrymen. There is a chance, we will never know for certain, that he might have come here, when he returned to Babylon, just before he died.\u201d<\/p>\n

The site was likely inhabited from 5000 BC and was by the 3rd millennium BC a city saved to the Sumerians, the world’s first established civilisation.<\/p>\n

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