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The tomb of Alexander the Great<\/b> was already a cult object and a destination for expeditions in antiquity. To this day, it is not entirely clear where he was. Supposedly, in 48 BCE Julius Caesar<\/a> visited the tomb in which the body of the great Macedonian leader was buried. Following in his footsteps, following the death of Cleopatra<\/a>, his adopted son, Gaius Octavian<\/a> followed. The chroniclers mention that he placed a bouquet of flowers on the conqueror’s grave and ordered a golden tiara to be placed over his head. <\/p>\n

There were also Romans who envied Alexander of Macedon his fame and achievements. Roman Emperor Caligula<\/a> envied Alexander so much that he even wanted to rob the corpse. Legend<\/a> has it that the mad emperor’s spies ransacked the tomb, removing gold and jewels (the coffin of the pure metal itself weighed 30 tons), and Caligula<\/a> himself brutally tore the priceless breastplate from the dead commander’s chest.<\/p>\n

Years later, another ruler of Rome<\/a> – the noble Emperor Septimius Sever<\/a> donated money to repair the tomb. However, in 218 CE his son – Caracalla<\/a>, motivated by curiosity, ordered that Alexander’s tunic, belt, ring and other small items be removed from the tomb. After examining them carefully, he left the coffin outside.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":56934,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"kategorie_ciekawostek":[77],"class_list":["post-106394","ciekawostki","type-ciekawostki","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","kategorie_ciekawostek-unknown-facts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/106394","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ciekawostki"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ciekawostki\/106394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kategorie_ciekawostek","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/imperiumromanum.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kategorie_ciekawostek?post=106394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}