The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

By the age of 32, Alexander the Great had conquered most of the world which was known to him.

But this episode isn't about that. This is about what happened after his death.

After he died, his corpse became a political football and his tomb became the centerpiece of the city in Egypt to which bears his name, and within a century became the centerpiece of the city in Egypt which bears his name and within a century

became the largest city on earth.

And then at some point his body and tomb just sort of disappeared from history.

Learn more about the corpse and tomb of Alexander the Great and what might have happened to it on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. Alexander the third bassalayus of Macedon, Hedgemont of the Hellenic League,

Strathagos autocratic of Greece, Shah and Shah of Persia, Pharaoh of Egypt, and Lord of Asia,

died in Babylon in modern day Iraq at the age of 32 on June 11th

323 BC.

How he died has been a subject of debate for well over 2,000 years.

The written record, which was written well after his lifetime,

says he suffered from chills, sweats, exhaustion, delirium, and he had terrible abdominal pains.

The cause of death over the years has been speculated to be malaria, typhoid fever, alcohol poisoning, strict nine poisoning and arsenic poisoning.

He might have died from some naturally acquired disease or he might have been assassinated.

However, he died, it really doesn't matter for the

purpose of this episode. The point is he died. When he died nobody was ready for it.

He was 32 and in the prime of his life. Moreover, he didn't have any plan for a secession.

He had an older half-brother named Philip III, who had some support, but by all accounts

he kind of had a learning disability and wasn't considered fit to run the sprawling empire that Alexander left behind

Alexander had a wife named Roxanna who was from Bactria in Central Asia and was pregnant at the time of his death.

No one knew what the sex of the child would be so they couldn't determine any secession plans at the time of

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