In pictures and video: An Algerian claims to have discovered the tomb and treasures of Alexander the Great in Jordan

Written By عمر الدجاني on 2013/10/02

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.

<p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr">ArabiaWeather.com - A French treasure hunter of Algerian origin named &quot;Baghdad Djilali Daifallah&quot; said that he managed to find the tomb and treasure of Alexander the Great in Jordan.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> Daif Allah expressed his satisfaction that he is telling the world about this matter, after a lecture he gave at the Institute of the Arab World in Paris, after a period of his discovery of the treasures.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> And the treasure hunter showed incredible pictures of a mountainous area in Jordan, &quot;whose name was not mentioned&quot;, with the entrance to the cave from which he found the treasure, pointing out that its name is &quot;Ptolemy&#39;s Bank&quot;, and it is a cave with multiple and booby-trapped corridors, leading to rooms full of gold. Add to pictures of the treasures he found.</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> The treasure contains, according to Daifallah, huge quantities of gold, golden statues of a herd of animals, basins of gold inlaid with sapphires, in addition to a group of coffins containing the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great and a number of leaders, which suggests that the treasures and coffins were transported from Alexandria to Jordan. .</p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"> It is noteworthy that Alexander the Macedonian had ordered the construction of the city of Tabqat Fahl in the Jordan Valley under the name of Pella, which is the same name of the city in which he was born in northern Greece, because the nature of the region reminded him of his original home. </p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p><p class="rtecenter" style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"><iframe frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/wGDI0vEHHk4" width="560"></iframe></p><p style=";text-align:left;direction:ltr"></p>

This article was written originally in Arabic and is translated using a 3rd party automated service. ArabiaWeather is not responsible for any grammatical errors whatsoever.


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