The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great
Dan Snow's History Hit
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Assassins Creed, Origins
Ptolemaic alexandria is reconstructed on the basis of good archaeological and textual evidence. The crystal sarcophagus, i think, comes if not from earlier than from claims made in the nineteenth century that somebody had seen his body inside a crystal, transparent sarcophagus. And you enter this from its in the centre of alexandrias in the palases district,. as we are led to believe it will have been quite a little way inland from the coast. You can see that the game designers have drawn on various different bits and pieces of evidence, the classical descriptions of the mausoleum.
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