It amazes me how time and again Alexander appears or reappears throughout history.
Archaeologists
have been working here since 2007 when a first basilica was unearthed. This
turned out to be a burial monument measuring
The most important find at this second basilica is, as far as I’m concerned, a marble stele that shows a bust of the Byzantine Emperor Heraclius – yet personified as Alexander the Great!
It is noteworthy that this Heraclius became emperor in 610 AD and spent most of his life fighting the Persian Sassanids and the thread of the rising Muslim Empire.
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