Regardless of what killed Alexander, his body was mummified. Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general who was Alexander's close friend and bodyguard, was instrumental in moving the body. "His ...

The speech is taken from the 'Anabasis of Alexander' (Book VII Chapter X), written around 130 AD by the Roman/Greek historian Arrian. Arrian had access to eyewitness accounts which are now lost ...

Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death.