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His horse was named Bucephelous

Yeah after Hank Jr.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Russ59:
Why do I remember my 8th grade world history class - Alexander the Great was born in 356BC and died in 323BC. His horse was named Bucephelous (?).

Hmmm, so would that have made him -33 years old?

BC dates count down toward 1 BC, so the smaller number always comes after the larger, the inverse of AD/CE dating.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Russ59:
Why do I remember my 8th grade world history class - Alexander the Great was born in 356BC and died in 323BC. His horse was named Bucephelous (?).

Hmmm, so would that have made him -33 years old?

It’s why they call him Alexander the Great rather than Alexander the Average.

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Originally posted by Oat_Action_Man:

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

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Originally posted by Russ59:
Why do I remember my 8th grade world history class - Alexander the Great was born in 356BC and died in 323BC. His horse was named Bucephelous (?).

Hmmm, so would that have made him -33 years old?

BC dates count down toward 1 BC, so the smaller number always comes after the larger, the inverse of AD/CE dating.

Come on, dude. I was making a joke. Albeit a crappy one.

I know how BC dates work.

Not familiar with the burial practices of that culture and time period, I have to wonder if it was an interment in a family home, a basement crypt, that sort of thing. I know that a lot of cultures in that area and that time period kept remains in ossuaries or family crypts; when you died, in you went with grandma and great-uncle and everyone else in the family bone box once your remains were sufficiently decomposed. The state of the tomb says these people were well-off. I wonder what they'll be able to figure out from the dig, I know I'm in the the long haul on data from this one.

Hand-in-hand with that, who knows other spectacular burials are a few dozen feet under modern day cities, especially in the middle east where cities haven't necessarily grown across the land but rather straight up, layers and layers upon layers of nothing but straight history? Rome, Jerusalem, countless other locations. Every time you break the surface of the ground, you're only inches away from thousands of years of history. That's the romanticism that brought me into archaeology in college. The reality of swimming in distilled sewage is what snaps one out of such a reverie.

Alexander's tomb rests under the Nabi Daniel Mosque in Alexandria. Good luck getting permission to excavate under a mosque in Egypt.

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Originally posted by Balzé Halzé:

Come on, dude. I was making a joke. Albeit a crappy one.

I know how BC dates work.

I got your joke. I thought it was humorous.



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Originally posted by TigerDore:

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We've opened it and, thank God, the world has not fallen into darkness," Mr Waziri said."I was the first to put my whole head inside the sarcophagus, and here I stand before you — I am fine."

I wonder if he blew bubbles.



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Bubbles wasn't in town.