Egypt
- Fate Of Ancient Egyptian Library A Mystery
The Bismarck Tribune (Carol M. Russell) No one can find Alexander the Great. He was buried in Alexandria after his body was brought back from Babylon where he died in 323 BC at age 33. Theories of his death range from poisoning to appendicitis. Why can't...
- Alexander The Great And The Legacy Of Alexandria
Daily Mail (Bettany Hughes) There is not, and has never been, another city to match it. It was a glittering metropolis, home to the most sexually charismatic queen of all time, founded by a man whose megalomaniac ambitions knew no bounds. It was a buzzing...
- More About Pre-alexander Alexandria - At Rhakotis
MSNBC The presence of occupations at Alexandria which predated Alexander was proposed by researchers analysing lead, and was reported in April last year. They proposed that there had been a bronze age settlement dated to the IV dynasty and an iron age...
- Book Review: Alexander's Lovers
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/5/emw388514.htm "Just published, Alexander’s Lovers is the second book by Andrew Chugg, the author of The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great. It presents an exploration of Alexander’s character through the mirror...
- More Re Lead Dating Of Alexandria
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/4/26/3761"Hidden behind the tranquil front of archeology, Greek history and Egyptian history there has been a hidden battle going between two groups of people. There are those who take the Greek version...
Egypt
More on Alexandria lead data
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20060508/alexandria_his.html
This is very much old news, but for anyone who has missed it previously, the Discovery Channel's website has provided some good coverage of the use of lead in sediments to identify different periods of occupation in Alexandria: "Traces of pollutant lead found in harbor sediments have revealed that Alexander the Great did not found the Egyptian city of Alexandria – he just rebranded it. One of antiquity’s most opulent economic and cultural centers, Alexandria is named after the Macedonian emperor Alexander the Great, who was believed to have ordered its construction on the western branch of the Nile River in 331 B.C. But new geochemical data, published by Alain Véron from the Paul Cézanne University in Aix-en-Provence, France, and colleagues in the current issue of Geophysical Research Letters, revealed that this part of the Nile was settled 4,500 years ago, more than two millennia before Alexander's arrival."
This is a rather more coherent version than one or two of the previous articles that were produced when the results of the research were first announced - see the above page for details.
- Fate Of Ancient Egyptian Library A Mystery
The Bismarck Tribune (Carol M. Russell) No one can find Alexander the Great. He was buried in Alexandria after his body was brought back from Babylon where he died in 323 BC at age 33. Theories of his death range from poisoning to appendicitis. Why can't...
- Alexander The Great And The Legacy Of Alexandria
Daily Mail (Bettany Hughes) There is not, and has never been, another city to match it. It was a glittering metropolis, home to the most sexually charismatic queen of all time, founded by a man whose megalomaniac ambitions knew no bounds. It was a buzzing...
- More About Pre-alexander Alexandria - At Rhakotis
MSNBC The presence of occupations at Alexandria which predated Alexander was proposed by researchers analysing lead, and was reported in April last year. They proposed that there had been a bronze age settlement dated to the IV dynasty and an iron age...
- Book Review: Alexander's Lovers
http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2006/5/emw388514.htm "Just published, Alexander’s Lovers is the second book by Andrew Chugg, the author of The Lost Tomb of Alexander the Great. It presents an exploration of Alexander’s character through the mirror...
- More Re Lead Dating Of Alexandria
http://arstechnica.com/journals/science.ars/2006/4/26/3761"Hidden behind the tranquil front of archeology, Greek history and Egyptian history there has been a hidden battle going between two groups of people. There are those who take the Greek version...