What is the history behind; part I  

Ok Geek pay attention, you how I told you; "that the general was Ptolemy I, and after he hijacked Alexander's funeral cortege, his successor, Ptolemy II, brought the corpse from Memphis to Alexandria. The next Ptolemy in 215, built the Soma, a grand mausoleum where he entombed his forefathers, his mother, and Alexander the Great. The Soma became one of the most renowned and respected shrines in the Acient world. Roman Empires like Julius Caesar, Octavian Severus and Caracalla treated the shrine as a place of veneration, and the soma stood for centuries, within a sacred precinct at the heart of the Greek cities.

so what is the big deal, his body is in the Greek cities.

Well Geek, it does not end there, yet at the end of the fourth century, when the Christian emperor Theodosius outlawed paganism, the Soma and the body of Alexander the Great disappeared.

wait I think I remember something, didn't they say that there is a connection between Venice and Alexander the Great?

now you are thinking geek.
Yes some say there is. Alexander the Great's mummified remains disappeared in the fourth century CE. Only an ancient, mummified corpse is known to have appear in Alexandria at the end of the fourth century CE. Those remains were the corpse of St. Mark the Evangelist, founder of Christianity in Alexandria, martyred there in the first century after Christ. The body of St. Mark had been missing for more than 200 hundred years, but it suddenly reappeared and was elaborated in a shrine (similar to the Soma) and worshiped by Christians for the next 300 years.
In 828 CE two Venetian merchants smuggled the richly perfumed mummy of St. Mark past Alexandria port officials and brought to Venice. For centuries it lay in the Basilica of St. Mark.

what happened to the body of Alexander the Great? sweets.

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but geek keep in mind that all of this can be the worst cases of mistaken identity , some historians claim that those remains found in the tomb of St. Mark are in fact the remains of the famous warlord in history.

Hi Cassandra, woe that is interesting, the history of what happened to Alexander the Great remains a mystery, maybe we will never know what really happened.

hey gabs I really hope that someday somebody will find out, what rally happened because I have a lot of questions.lol.

Geek I LOVE IT, the royal diaries, cool now we know when the warlord bath, lol, thanks geek, you made my day.

sweets, you are welcome, hey maybe you and I should start our own expedition, and go look for the tomb.

did you know that some historian is claiming the tomb is in Australia.

yeah, I been following all the expeditions and historians very close, but sounds like they are going no where.
Geek, yeah we should start packing, and look for the warlord, hey let's do it after college graduation, I have the chronological summary of expeditions of Alexander the Great, maybe your geek mind can help us figure out what are we missing. I have the book file copy not to be taken away, it talks about the expedition of
Alexander the great I just don't get what we are missing.

you got it sweets