ALEXANDRIA, Egypt 19 , 2018 (MENA) - Secretary-General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities Mostafa Waziri inspected on Thursday the 2000-year-old Ptolemaic tomb and the large black granite sarcophagus that have been discovered during an archaeological survey conducted in a privately owned plot of land in Sidi Gaber district in Alexandria. In statements to MENA, archaeologists highlighted the great value of such significant archeological find, saying that this discovery has revived the dream of finding the tomb of Alexander the Great. They affirmed that all archaeological and historical evidence indicates that the tomb and the sarcophagus are not for Alexander the Great. Mohamed Abd el Maguid, the former general director of the Central Department of Underwater Antiquities in Alexandria, said that historians have different opinions on the location where Alexander the Great was buried, but most of them believe that he had been buried in Soma neighborhood in Alexandria. The ancient Greek king who is widely considered one of history's most successful military commanders succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of twenty and died at the age of 32 in 323 BC. He was a member of the Argead dynasty and he spent most of his ruling years on an unprecedented military campaign through Asia and northeast Africa creating one of the largest empires of the ancient world by the age of thirty, stretching from Greece to northwestern India.
