Strange but True: Alexander the Great may have been buried alive!

Former student of Aristotle, this Macedonian prince was born in 356BC at Pella, and at the tender age of sixteen, was left in charge of ruling the kingdom while his father, Philip II, was leading an attack on Byzantium. During this time, Alexander and his army defeated the Maedi, a Thracian people. An ambitious warrior, he went on to command the left wing at the Battle of Chaeronea, in which he broke through the ranks of an elite military corps, the Sacred Band of Thebes, comprising one hundred and fifty pairs of lovers. A short time later, his…