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On its way to Aigai, the body was hijacked by Ptolemaios I and brought to Memphis. Alexander was indeed buried in Alexandria (after being transported from Memphis, by Ptolemaios II Philadelphos-Son of Ptolemaios I), but his mummified remains disappeared around the late 4th-early 5th Century C.E.  The remains vanished without a trace, eerily around the same time period when ancient Gortynos in Gortynia-Arkadia was deserted (a city that thrived for over 2200 years) and its remaining inhabitants founded the village of Atzi-Cholos deep within the Lousios Gorge. They had an official seal with an emblem, depicting the thorax and spear of Great Alexander, believed to be a copy of an actual insignia of Alexander’s.  Ironically, the first word of “Atzi” has also a very important meaning in the semitic languages of the lands in which Alexander had spread his ideals of Hellenism. Also, the monastery which has this Byzantine icon of Abba St. Sisois, visiting the remains of Alexander (c. mid-16th century), is built within the vicinity of the ruins of the old village of Atzi-Cholos and above ancient Gortynos. (*St. Sisois, one of the early fathers of the Christian Church who lived an ascetic life in Egypt, was one of the last people to have viewed Alexander’s corpse, before he died in 429 C.E.)

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