ptolemy's plot

How History's Greatest Heist — Stealing Alexander The Great's Tomb — Was Pulled Off

How History's Greatest Heist — Stealing Alexander The Great's Tomb — Was Pulled Off
In late 321 BC, Egyptian governor Ptolemy hatched a plan to hijack Alexander the Great's corpse — and sparked years of brutal conflict between himself and the former ruler's general, Perdiccas.
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