“There is a chance, we will never know for certain, that he might have come here, when he returned to Babylon, just before he died.” “We found offerings, the kinds of offerings that would be given after a battle, figures of soldiers and cavalrymen. Our discoveries place the later temple in Alexander’s lifetime. The discovery of the temple also suggests that Alexander’s contemporaries had knowledge of the previous 4,000-year-old site which had been abandoned for millennia, suggesting that ancient societies had an accurate historical knowledge and cultural memory.īritish Museum archaeologist Dr Sebastien Rey said: “It is truly mind-blowing. If the theory is correct, it may have been one of the last acts of the conqueror before his death at age 32. ![]() ![]() British Museum experts could have solved an archaeological mystery after discovering a temple where Alexander the Great may have been proclaimed divine.Įxperts working on the ancient city of Girsu in southern Iraq unearthed a 4,000-year-old Sumerian temple, so old that later extremely cryptic Greek inscriptions found at the site made no historical sense.īritish Museum archaeologists now believe the site boasted a Greek temple possibly commissioned by Alexander the Great himself to honour ancient gods and his own divine status.
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