Did Alex really keep his treasures in Alexandria Egypt and another temple called Luna around Santorini, Greece? If so, was there an earthquake around the 4th century and it fell into the sea? I heard about this on Laura Croft Tomb Raiders 2 movie: The Cradle of Life?

-- Anonymous, September 16, 2003

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I heard that the body of Alex was found in Alexandria by a roge archeoligist durring WWII. It was crated up along with a goodly share of the treasure found along with the body and placed in a Government Ware House somewhere near the crate holding the Ark of the covenent... found by said archeoligist.... (wink and a smile inserted here)

-- Anonymous, November 27, 2004

I don't know if it's true but I know one thing: Angie played the roll as Lara Croft outstanding and Lara Croft ROCK!!!!!!!!! It would satisfy me if there is 20 Tomb Raider movies and Angie plays Lara again. LONG LIVE LARA CROFT!!!

-- Anonymous, November 24, 2004

The name could always have been changed from its original... as of now, we don't know what Alexander called it...

As for his body, it was taken to Alexandria by Ptolemy I Soter, one of his three greatest generals, who later ruled Egypt and began the Ptolemaic dynasty. There is no record of the body being moved during the reign of the Ptolemaic Pharaohs, but it is possible that when the Library of Alexandria was put to the torch (whether by accident or on purpose) the building housing his sarcophagus could have been destroyed. The other possibility is that when the Library was finally destroyed, by a Christian patriarch of Alexandria (Cyrus, I think his name was, not too sure on that one), the sarcophagus, glorifying a "pagan king" as it was, could have also been destroyed. I don't believe any legend should be discounted, even if it is publicized by a movie. Granted, Hollywood has a rather regrettable tendency to inflate facts, but like mythology, there is often a grain of truth behind stories such as this one.

-- Anonymous, October 30, 2004

What a mystery, But to uncover this mystery there will be an answer ol' chap , bloddy as hell it will be though because then the mystery ends, and no more explorations can be acumilated.

_______sara_______

-- Anonymous, August 26, 2004

yes i love the moie and i would love to know it all who knows the truth but god

-- Anonymous, August 07, 2004

I belive that although we all have our own opinions we might as well accept the fact that the Luna Temple is in fact quite real. The facts are that although some of the timing in the movie are a bit off the facts are still relativly correct. Alexander traveled everywhere and knew many differnt lauguages and studied many different cultures, so the fact taht it is called the Luna Temple does not go against it's existance. We are all a bit scepticale because of our back grounds or maybe something we have studied, I myself am a historian and have studied these things for years. If you really want to know about the Luna Temple you need to find a large and very old collection of Greek history encyclopedias because they are excellent referances! Happy History Hunting! P.S. if you belive in the Luna Temple than it is real in your heart even if it is not real in factual evidence!

-- Anonymous, June 28, 2004

Sorry...but..Luna is a greek name...and like someone says...luna temple is not a myth!!

-- Anonymous, June 21, 2004

i think, who realy cares!!!

-- Anonymous, May 16, 2004

The Luna Temple does exist and no it was not a myth. In the Alexander the great archives its says that alexander kept that which he prized most in a temple which noone was allowed to see before he died he told its location to three people but in his diary it showed no names but it said they were his closest companions and soon after he died it was said that all died but one and they made a map of the temples location just before he died. the temple was called his place of peace. The temple was lost by rises in the sea level and eventually the ground corroded and the island fell to the ocean floor

-- Anonymous, April 07, 2004

you never know lara could be using facts or fiction you never know

-- Anonymous, March 14, 2004

People...it was just a movie...!!! And considering a movie with Angelina Jolie every lie become a true...she´s gorgeous! Hollywood royalty!!! a queen... Let Alexander,his luna temple,Santorini and all that stuff behind...and worship lady Lara Croft... She rocks!!!

-- Anonymous, January 15, 2004

Did Alexander keep his treasure in Santorini also? I dont think so. At the time of the Hellenistic period in which Alexander started his empire, Santorini was a tini little island in the South Aegean sea. The volcanic eruption in 1620 BC devasted the island and according to historians of the that period, no other volcanic eruption took place (that was ever recorded. The last volcani eruption to take place wasin 1956 and the only artefacts that have been found come from the city of Akrotiri which was definitely NOT Hellenistic. Luna Temple? No such thing as Luna was not a Greek name. Shame really that so many movies foul up history and confuse people. If Alexanders treasures are ever found, and one day they will be, it will be the greatest archaeological find we have ever known. Who knows where his body was taken to after his death. We do know that his Empire was divided up by his generals.....and they went on to found fantastic places...but the Luna Temple? give me a break! By the way, there are NO SHARKS in Santorini either....just in case you were wondering.

-- Anonymous, January 08, 2004

Big problems with the Luna Temple. Luna was a Roman moon goddess (actually the Oxford Classical Dictionary says Sabine), so Alexander wouldn't have erected a temple to her. The Greek equivalent would have been Selene. The temple sank in 330 B.C., says Lara, but Alexander didn't get to the Indus River--where the box supposedly was found--until 326, so there's a chronological disjunction there. Also, the box is said to have been responsible for a plague among Alexander's army, but the ancient author Arrian's The Campaigns of Alexander makes no mention of a plague there, the box, or, of course, the Luna Temple. Moreover, I don't think there's any record of an earthquake in 330 or the following years. There was one in 373 B.C., which produced a tsunami that destroyed the Greek city of Helike, near Corinth, and another earthquake must have been responsible for the tsunami that devastated Tryphon of Apamaea's army as it marched along the Syrian coast near the city of Ptolemais in the second century B.C. But not in 330.

-- Anonymous, December 02, 2003