Archaeologists unearthed a 4,000-year-old Sumerian temple with cryptic Greek inscriptions inside where he may have been proclaimed divine
British Museum experts could have solved an archaeological mystery after discovering a temple where Alexander the Great may have been proclaimed divine.
Experts working on the ancient city of Girsu in southern Iraq unearthed a 4,000-year-old Sumerian temple, so old that later extremely cryptic Greek inscriptions found at the site made no historical sense.
British Museum archaeologists now believe the site boasted a Greek temple possibly commissioned by Alexander the Great himself to honour ancient gods and his own divine status.
If the theory is correct, it may have been one of the last acts of the conqueror before his death at age 32.