This strange coincidence is what led Andrew Chugg to speculate that these tombs may actually be one and the same. This is also when we get the first references to the existence of a tomb of Saint Mark in Alexandria. However, references to Alexander the Great’s tomb in Alexandria dry up by 390 CE, just before Roman Emperor Theodosius I made Christianity the official religion of the Empire and banned all non-Christian worship in 391 CE. All of this is firmly established in the historical record. This is where famous leaders like Julius and Augustus Caesar, Cleopatra, and Caligula came to pay their respects. After Alexander the Great died in 323 BCE, his body ended up in Alexandria, Egypt, a city he had founded. I also wrote an in-depth article explaining Andrew’s theory: Is the Catholic Church hiding the body of Alexander the Great? If true, this would mean that the famous Macedonian’s remains were not located somewhere in Egypt, as had generally been assumed, but rather beneath Saint Mark’s Basilica in Venice, Italy. Andrew joined me on my podcast back in 2017 to discuss his controversial and fascinating theory that Alexander the Great’s tomb had been relabeled that of Saint Mark, a key figure in the Christian religion. This story starts a few months ago, when I got an email from British author, historian, and all-around Alexander the Great expert Andrew Chugg.
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