Where is King Alexander Buried?

How artists imagined his death over twenty-three centuries

Ajay Sharma
ILLUMINATION-Curated
3 min readDec 16, 2022

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Alexander and Porus by Charles Le Brun, painted 1673. — Wikimedia Commons
Alexander and Porus by Charles Le Brun, painted in 1673 — Wikimedia Commons

A tomb now suffices him for whom the whole world was not sufficient. — Alexander the Great

After a long and tiring campaign, Macedonian King Alexander’s army began a long march back home from India in 326 BCE. But Alexander got…

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Ajay Sharma
ILLUMINATION-Curated

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