Alexander the Great

Moon Knight found Alexander the Great's lost tomb, but the history of that priceless resting site suggests archeologists might never locate it.

The entirety of the Moon Knight tomb also wasn’t nearly as ornate or full of remarkable treasures as we might expect. The city survived, building over its ancient portions and ballooning to a population of more than five million. Not unless the seas start drying up instead of rising. It’s hard to believe one of the single most sought after historical sites can been so hard to find when we know the exact city it resided in. In 356 A.D., a tsunami inundated the city. In 199 CE, Roman Emperor Septimius Severus closed the tomb to prevent any more thefts, but his son and heir removed more items in 215 CE. He’s the last Emperor known to have visited the tomb. It’s hard to overstate the accomplishments of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King who amassed a vast empire in just 12 short years. As are the cause of it. Worshippers carved what must have been a stunning tomb into the rock underneath the Soma. It was there his body lay in state. How could a location treated as a temple to a god disappear in a highly populated city? Even the timing of its disappearance remains a mystery. He discovered the lost tomb of Alexander the Great. The final resting place of the legendary conqueror vanished long ago.

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As soon as Steven opens up Alexander’s sarcophagus, he realizes that the great king was the voice of Ammit. And if that’s true, the Ushabti of Ammit is hidden at a place where no one can locate it. By looking at the Macedonian scriptures on the mysterious sarcophagus, Steven understands that the tomb he is looking at right now is of no one else but Alexander The Great. The fourth episode of Moon Knight was released recently, and it amazed us with a lot of new surprises.

The real-life story of Alexander the Great's missing tomb, in addition to what his presence in Moon Knight episode 4 could mean for the MCU.

Whatever the case, Marvel's Moon Knight doesn't offer enough information about the MCU’s version of Alexander the Great to make a definitive statement about the kind of person he was. However, since Ammit’s ushabti was sealed in his tomb, Alexander could have been the avatar who was said to have betrayed Ammit in episode 1, so if he wasn’t a hero from the start, then he could have at least become one by the end of his life. In addition to spending his life conquering people and establishing an empire, he was also noted to have had a violent temper and to be a paranoid megalomaniac who considered himself a god, none of which comes across as very heroic. Before his body could be brought to Macedonia, Alexander’s general, Ptolemy I Soter, stole it and took it to Memphis, likely in a bid to assert his right to the throne, and it stayed there until Ptolemy II Philadelphus transferred it to Alexandria. After that, Alexander's tomb was constantly raided by people looking to sell his things for money, with the original sarcophagus even being replaced with a glass one by Ptolemy IX Lathyros so it could be sold for coinage. The revelation of Ammit’s tomb also being Alexander the Great’s is treated as a major revelation on Steven’s part thanks to it having been missing, which matches up with the tomb's current status in real life. Poisoning was largely ruled out because of how long it took for him to die, but in a 2014 journal, Dr. Leo Schep suggested that white hellebore could have been used to poison him since its poison takes a while to kill someone (via Phys.org). Regardless, following his death, Alexander’s body was sealed in a golden sarcophagus with plans to carry it to Macedonia.

Oscar Isaac as Marc Spector/Steven Grant and May Calamawy as Layla El-Faouly. Source: Marvel Studios. Article ...

He was a seemingly all-powerful conqueror who was able to take over hundreds of kingdoms, and in doing so, he was also beloved by many. When he pieces this all together, Steven comes to the conclusion that the person entombed here must have been Alexander the Great. This would mean that Alexander the Great’s long-lost tomb was not only discovered by Steven, but also that he was the final avatar to Ammit. It’s rumored that his body was laid in a gold sarcophagus, not unlike the one we saw in Moon Knight, although according to legend, it was filled with honey. Moon Knight draws on lots of Egyptian and ancient history, so it’s only fitting that Alexander the Great should get a mention. What we didn’t expect was that Ammit could actually be tied to an actual historical figure, let alone Alexander the Great. So what is Alexander the Great’s relevance in Moon Knight? Steven understands a lot when it comes to ancient Egypt — he can piece together maps of stars, read some hieroglyphics, and even draw the Eye of Horus and equate it to a map.

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What’s certain is that her appearance is a total cliffhanger that gets its inspiration mainly from Egyptian mythology, and not the comics. This particular one is standing up and is prominently placed in the shot. Steven then converses with Marc and tells him that the tomb before them belonged to Alexander the Great. In Marvel Comics’ Moon Knight Volume 8, the one written by Jeff Lemire and illustrated by Greg Smallwood, Marc is placed in a similar situation when he finds himself inside an asylum. He then admits to being present but says he had no part in the death of her father. We take a deep dive into the biggest Moon Knight episode 4 easter eggs to learn more about them.

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Calling the scene “one of the most fun” they had filming the show, Benson continues “And it was such a fun scene to direct. Layla is somebody who is on a very wild ride and isn't willing to just be the passenger.” “We had a lot of long conversations about exactly who Layla was outside of her relationship with Marc Spector and she became more and more interesting, as she had this very tumultuous relationship with her home of Egypt. And also, of course, May is Egyptian, and that was something where she was able to bring in a lot of her thoughts there,” Moorhead adds. And then how they rise to the challenge when they do it. As Benson tells Marvel.com, “It was really beautiful to see how encouraged May was to bring anything she felt necessary to this character, the amount of support she had to do that, even from her castmates. If you can believe it, this scene wasn’t actually originally in the script, but came out of an idea from both stars Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy, who wanted to work together more on the show.

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(Who knew flares could be so versatile a weapon?) And we did finally get a lovely, intimate scene between Layla and Marc, in which his utter disbelief at having to explain to her how he was there when her father was executed is only exceeded by the shame he feels at finally needing to hear himself say those words aloud. MCU properties live or die by the strength of their villains, after all, and his Harrow is a particularly slippery one, so self-righteous that he feels distractingly real. Which is maybe why I was so taken aback—in the best of ways—when we got to that twist. So instead we had some tense conversations and one attack from a very scary being (again, I already had Buffy and her vamps in my mind before that “Normal Again” reset) that pushed our heroes to be the resourceful folks they’ve shown themselves to be. But maybe the identity of this new high-pitch voiced character, who rightfully scares the shit out of Marc and Steven (yes, you read that right), is best left for next week’s recap (in the meantime, google “Taweret”). We should concern ourselves instead with this bifurcated episode instead. In the middle of the desert.