Independent researcher Zhumabek SADYKOV suggests that he discovered the grave of Alexander the Great. If his version turns out to be correct, this will be a reason to rewrite history textbooks.
The secret of the burial of the great commander, over which scientists from all over the world and history lovers are fighting, according to the young man, was solved by him … thanks to the Internet, which opened access to gigabytes of information. A Kazakhstani researcher (he has no academic degrees on this topic) offers to look at the evidence of his hypothesis.
Another angle
In the history of the death of Alexander the Great and the question of the location of his grave, there is a lot of secret and unclear, different peoples have different descriptions of these events. According to material from Wikipedia, “the tomb of Alexander the Great was erected at the very end of the 4th century BC. According to one of the most common versions, the body of the commander was placed in a golden coffin and filled with honey. First, the coffin was taken to Memphis, then to Alexandria, Egypt, where it remained until the end of the period of antiquity, after which it disappeared. It is believed that the famous Romans - Pompey, Caesar and Augustus Octavian, Caligula visited the tomb of Alexander”.
“The fact is that Alexander at that time was the king of Egypt, he was almost“deified”there,” says an independent researcher. - He had a special love for this country, he named the city after himself - Alexandria. Accordingly, he had every right to "registration" at the local cemetery. He bequeathed himself to be buried in Egypt, and the will of the dying, and even the king, is sacred!
Luxor, where the pharaohs are buried, is located in Thebes - the former capital of Ancient Egypt. The old name of Fíva is consonant with the word Siwa. The place has been known since antiquity and was considered sacred for pilgrims. There is a golden coffin, which could later be called a sarcophagus.
The procedure for the mummification of the deceased pharaoh is standard for Egypt, although the same Plutarch was sure that the body of the commander was embalmed in Babylon. The presence of flowers "in the coffin": presumably Augustus Octavian covered his body with flowers during the capture of Alexandria.
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Mummy of the king
So the grave of one of the most famous personalities in the history of mankind, according to Zhumabek Sadykov … has already been found! But she was not recognized …
- I believe that the embalmed body, or simply the mummy, and accordingly the contents of the tomb found in the Valley of the Kings in 1922, under the number KV62, exactly corresponds to the description of the ancients about the tomb of Alexander and that the mummy is nothing more than the body of the Macedonian king. This place is better known as … the tomb of Tutankhamun.
Quite a bold and unexpected assumption?
- I will try to prove it using ordinary logic, - writes Zhumabek in his article, which he kindly shared with our editorial office. - Tutankhamun was found in Egypt. Thebes and Siwa - sounds similar, possibly confused, distorted. A vessel with honey was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun (in the sarcophagus itself, the honey apparently dried up, the lid was not tightly closed). On the neck was a wreath of cornflowers and daisies.
When I was in the Cairo Museum, I realized the true dimensions of Tutankhamun's “ark” - you can park your car in it. I found a photo of a funeral hearse in which Alexander's body was transported, it was described from the words of Diodorus, who may have used other sources. It's like creating a composite sketch, it's not accurate, but approximate. The Macedonian hearse and the so-called “ark” of Tutankhamun are huge “containers”, they are unique, no other similar monuments have survived.
- A little more than a ton of gold was found in the tomb of Tutankhamun (the total weight of all gold items), this is a lot. To leave so much gold and not return for it, you need a good reason, - continues Zhumabek. - What two mummies of female babies ended up in the tomb? The Egyptian authorities did not advertise this for a long time. They write that the DNA of one of the girls allegedly confirms that her father was a pharaoh, but then, in theory, the relationship should be the same for both girls. I think the answer is in history.
I think that everything was the other way around: the remains of the Spartan were pulled out of the tomb for the needs of the king and Alexander the Great was buried there along with the daughters of the Spartan. For some reason, there was a rush - they were in a hurry to bury the commander, maybe there was a war or someone wanted to steal the body. And why the DNA coincided with the girl - the mercenary was also a European.
According to the iGENEA Institute in Zurich, which was published back in 2011, experts analyzed DNA isolated from the mummified remains of Tutankhamun and concluded that the pharaoh belonged to haplogroup R1b1a2. It occurs in more than 50 percent of men in Western Europe, in some countries it reaches 70 percent. But the share of carriers of this haplogroup among modern Egyptians is less than 1 percent.
Where then is Tutankhamun?
A reasonable question arises: where then is the tomb of Tutankhamun himself?
- Tutankhamun is on the list of pharaohs, and Alexander should also be on this list. The fact is that the Egyptians had a tradition of translating names, giving epithets, for example, Sun-like.
Finally, a researcher, who, by the way, is a doctor by training, draws attention to the medical records of the famous commander and the Egyptian pharaoh and finds coincidences between them. Alexander the Great died at the age of a little over 30, and according to one of the most common versions - from malaria. Eight years ago, the Supreme Council for Antiquities in Egypt published the results of genetic research in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA). In their opinion, Tutankhamun died of complications caused by a combination of malaria and Keller's disease (inflammation of the bones of the foot). This finding is supported by 103 walking sticks and jars of malaria medicine found in his tomb.
Alexander's body was marked with many battle wounds, cuts and scars - it is believed that in many battles he was one of the first to go forward. If you analyze everything, you can notice other coincidences with the ailments of the Egyptian pharaoh. In the list of Alexander's wounds, listed by the Greek philosopher Plutarch, it appears: “Under Granicus, his helmet was cut by a sword that penetrated to the hair, under Issus - a sword in the thigh, near Gaza he was wounded with a dart in the shoulder, near Marakanda - with an arrow in the shin so that the split bone protruded from the wound, in Hyrcania - like a stone in the back of the head, after which his vision deteriorated and for several days he remained under threat of blindness, in the area of the Assakans - with an Indian spear in the ankle … it was so strong in the chest that air came out of the holes left after the arrow,in the same place … he was stabbed in the neck with a club”.
- An X-ray study of Tutankhamun's mummy revealed interesting facts - a "wandering" splinter of bone in the skull and an injury at the base of the skull, which could have been the result of a strong blow to the head from behind, - Zhumabek cites the results of the American investigation. - Traces of an unhealed fracture of the femur of the left leg shortly before death. Anomalies of the thin bones above the orbits of the skull could occur with a head injury as a result of falling backwards, with a sharp forward movement of the head.
Who, in your opinion, can not accept this version - the Egyptians, Macedonians?
- It seems to me that everyone will be only “for”. This plays into the hands of the Egyptians. This news can increase the flow of tourists to the country by 10 times. I plan to go to Cairo again, visit the Ministry of Antiquities, talk to them. But first of all, I would like our country to learn about this: I do not have enough support, opinions, feedback from compatriots.
If experts respond for a discussion, I can be an opponent and defend my statement.
Author: Akmaral Khasenova