There are also questions whether or not someone moved Alexander’s body out of Alexandria entirely. Later visitors claimed to have seen the tomb, but their veracity is questionable at best. John Chrysostom wrote the people of Alexandria no longer knew its exact spot when he asked. However, by 400 CE the location of the site was already in question. He’s the last Emperor known to have visited the tomb. In 199 CE, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus closed the tomb to prevent any more thefts, but his son and heir removed more items in 215 CE. Caligula is another, said to have taken Alexander’s breastplate. Cleopatra is one of the historical figures who reportedly looted treasures from the tomb. The list of luminaries who paid their respects to Alexander includes both Julius Caesar and the first Roman Emperor Augustus. Legendary historical figures visited as well. The tomb also served as a holy site pilgrims from around the world came to pay their respects to a man considered a god. Worshippers carved what must have been a stunning tomb into the rock underneath the Soma. Later his remains moved to Alexandria where they resided in the city’s Soma, a wall-enclosed royal district that also contained the tombs of Ptolemaic kings. Originally meant to be entombed in Macedonian, Alexander’s body first resided in Memphis, Egypt in a gold sarcophagus filled with honey. While reliable texts about Alexander’s life are scant, historical accounts provide us with multiple reports of his final resting place. That location might be why his tomb has been lost to time. Alexander named up to 70 cities for himself.) Alexandria sits on the western edge of the Nile River delta along the Mediterranean Sea. He also founded Alexandria, a grand new Egyptian capital city named after himself. Though he spent relatively little time there, he dedicated resources to restoring neglected temples and building new ones and Egyptians accepted him as both ruler and god. Priests of Egypt named Alexander Pharaoh in 332 BCE.
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