Science & Planet When he in 323 before Christ died, was Alexander the Great at the head of one of the greatest empires of antiquity. Although he was only 32, he had control over an area that stretched from the Ionian Sea to the Himalayas. He wanted to just to a new invasion begin, when he suddenly high fever and was after 12 days of excruciating pain died. For centuries, the search is on to him what exactly killed. A newly published study throws an intriguing new light on the matter. And why the 6 days did honor his body began to dissolve.
About that last had the ancient Greeks, according to historical sources, however, no doubt about it: Alexander was no ordinary man, but a god. That his body for 6 days no signs showed of dissolution, there was only but a proof of.
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The reality would be somewhat different, according to dr. Katherine Hall of the Dunedin School of Medicine at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She writes in the scientific journal The Ancient History Bulletin. According to her, would the king of Macedonia not succumbed to poisoning by one of his many enemies or a disease such as malaria or typhoid, but from a neurological disorder that he suffered through an infection. And no one would be a week-long traces of dissolution have seen, because Alexander simply not yet dead. the
Hall argues that many of the theories surrounding the death of Alexander the Great, focusing on the severe fever and abdominal pain that he was in the days before his death. But, according to her had the ruler is also a “progressive, symmetrical ascending paralysis” and “he continued to clear and fully conscious until just before he died”. And that got so far barely any attention. (read on below)
