From a tongue-in-cheek retrospective of the past year's events in a piece from Spero:
Obviously not serious, but what WOULD happen if the tomb of Alexander were to be found in downtown Alexandria? Can you imagine the court case that would follow?
Late in May Egyptian archaeologists made the discovery of the millennium when they located the "lost" tomb of Alexander the Great at a dried up oasis in the western desert. The quantity of treasure found in the tomb caused immediate diplomatic tension throughout the region as the Greek Government reclaimed both his body and his autographed copy of the "Iliad". Every modern state from Greece to India has now laid claim to some part of the discovery. Alexander died in 323 B.C. on the 13th of June after a brief illness. He was five feet two inches tall.
Obviously not serious, but what WOULD happen if the tomb of Alexander were to be found in downtown Alexandria? Can you imagine the court case that would follow?