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Is ‘The Lost City of Alexander the Great’ Actually Alexander’s?

NOT SO FAST

This new discovery also brims with historical potential—but none of the evidence released so far proves that Alexander the Great founded the city.

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The archaeological world is abuzz this week with the news that a “Lost City of Alexander the Great” has been discovered in Iraq. As if this news enough weren’t interesting enough, the archaeological team of researchers from the British Museum made the discovery when they were reviewing declassified American spy...

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