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Totally possible!

A primitive rum.

And now with this finding in Pakistan! That's terrific.

STG

Hello, Anyone can give me an idea of how much of Alexandria original seashore line has been drowned during all those tsunami events (even after 350AD...). I was thinking about the location of Alexander's tomb, and its relation to the seashore. I've seen these pictures (http://www.oddee.com/item_9669...

Amazing e-book!

Should be mentioned in the main forum really!

I think that the burning was deliberate: http://suite101.com/article/alexander-a ... is-a175843

Hello,
The second name for Hephaistion, Amyntoros, which of the ancient sources mention it?
Thanks!

Hello athenas owl, Mm, mead! Yep, seems that Marco Polo got some fermented beverage from sugar cane when in Persia, according to wiki. Known as "brum" in Malaysia. And, yes, I also checked distilling processes, and it did exist in a very rudimentar way, I think, in Asia and other places, c...

OK, now let's try it Sober (had to edit the original post) Hello people, I was searching for a Mojito receipe today morning (if you don't know what a Mojito is, it is a drink prepared with white Cuban rum, Brazilians have it in the morning instead of milk :wink: Sorry, joking ), and I came across an...

Well, let me see: 1 - I always think of him as the first westerner to actually sit on an eastern throne. I may very well be wrong though. There is the 2 - siege of Tyre and the causeway, but that would have been a teamwork (I mean, a 'brainstorming' with councelors...). So doesnt count, does it? And...

OK, here is my very (very) belated participation on one of the Top 5 "most recurrent questions of world history"! I choose the third one, and my stress is not on the "lovers" thing, but on the "love" thing. As some others believe, I do think that Alexander and Hephaisti...

At this time it was reported that the statue of Orpheus, son of Oeagrus the Thracian, which was in Pieris, sweated incessantly. Various were the explanations of this prodigy given by the soothsayers; but Aristander, a man of Telmissus, a soothsayer, bade Alexander take courage; for he said it was e...

Well, this may not be very factual, but I remember I read long ago about the fire in the Temple of Artemis in Epheso, when he was born, and there was this mention of a "crying statue" or any such thing. Do you people recall any story about a condensation phenomenom? I just can't find this ...

Oh, and one more thing: there is a 70's Brazilian song, built on the poetical metric of sonnets used in the folk songs of Brazilian northeast (called "cordel") that introduced me first-hand to the Iliad and also Alexander (I remember so clearly that I used to think that those stories were ...

Well, I was told a couple of things about him by dad - the Gordian Knot is one of them. But he was just OK then (like OK, what a genius, bt only OK). But I got really fascinated when I learned that he went so far as India, and that he traveled through not very well-known places in Central Asia (quit...

Hi there Chris, I am late here, but I would like to share a thought: The lack of data about Hephaestion, which leaves sooo many blank spaces for Alex's admirers (me including 8) ), and gives out a profusion of Why's (oh dear, we will hardly know, damn! :cry: ), must be one big reason for some schola...

Ok, not too well known in medieaval times! I thought it had been widely accepted that that happend, and I see it hasnt. I was checking internet, and what I did find was that the 'sacred marriage' thing with kings and high priestesses goes back hundreds of years before Alexander, so.... Shouldnt be ...