Modern doctors called the disease, as a result of which the great commander of the ancient world was put in his grave while still alive.
The legendary commander was diagnosed by Dr Katherine Hall, a physician at the University of Otago, who recently reported it in the scientific journal The Ancient History Bulletin. More popular and briefly, the arguments of the researcher are given by the university website and the Daily Mail newspaper.
Alexander the Great, aka Alexander III the Great - the king of Macedonia and also a great commander who conquered almost half of the world, died suddenly in Babylon on June 10, 323 BC. He did not live for several months to be 33 years old.
The death of the king was accompanied by a miracle: his body remained incorrupt for 6 days - before burial. This was evidenced, for example, by Plutarch, an authoritative ancient Greek writer and philosopher who composed Comparative Biographies, a work in which he recreated the images of prominent political figures in Greece and Rome.
According to Catherine Hall, there was no miracle. According to her diagnosis, the commander died of a rare neurological disease, as a result of which he was paralyzed. The immovable body was considered dead, although it remained alive. It seems that the commander was still alive and was buried, hiding in a sarcophagus.
There is no exact historical information about what actually killed Alexander the Great. Here are the versions and multiply - for more than two thousand years. There are dozens of them.
Some researchers believe that the king was killed - most likely poisoned. Perhaps by accident. Others say that he abused wine and once "drank" so much that he fell from acute alcoholic pancreatitis.
Among the versions put forward by doctors, there are malaria, West Nile fever, typhoid fever, schistosomiasis, cancer, leishmaniasis, and even flu and pneumonia.
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Alexander the Great fell ill at the age of 32.
Guillain-Barré syndrome - such a diagnosis was made by Catherine Hall to Alexander the Great. This disease is usually accompanied by nerve damage and increasing extensive paralysis. Preceded in most cases is a bacterial infection caused by Campylobacter pylori microbes. They often cause inflammation of the small intestine. And the king was just complaining of severe abdominal pain.
Paralyzed, Alexander eventually lost consciousness: he was silent, did not move, did not feel anything, breathed, but was so indistinguishable that he seemed dead. Those who were close to him considered him. And since decay, in spite of the heat, did not cover the body, they began to deify Macedonian.
“… All this time the corpse remained clean and fresh,” Plutarch was amazed. Catherine Hall explained why. Unfortunately, it is impossible to test her hypothesis by means of analyzes. Like many others. The grave of Aldexander the Great has not yet been found.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY