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The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great.
Some time ago in the course of excavations at Sidon, eleven sarcophagi were discovered; four Phoenician and seven Greek. The Greek ones have been removed to Constantinople and will be exhibited as soon as a fitting room can be prepared. One of these is of such immense proportions and so magnificent that it was thought to be the tomb of some Assyrian king. Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and the battle of Granicus. The sarcophagus is nearly twelve feet long, seven high and five and a half broad, and the total weight is twenty-five tons, of which the cover weighs ten. It is all of fine Parian marble. Several French savants are now studying it at Constantinople.
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