Josh Gates Uncovers Alexander’s Lost Tomb | Expedition Unknown | Discovery

Absolutely! Oh my God, that is a perfect fit!
That’s where it fits—bang on—in the British Museum in London.
We’re using augmented reality and have just matched a Macedonian ferry block found in the Crypt of St. Mark to a sarcophagus found in Alexandria, Egypt.
It means that the body inside may have been none other than the Conqueror Alexander the Great.

Look at how perfectly that sits there!
It’s an excellent fit! I mean, right down to this—almost seems like it interlocks into the very edge of the corner here.
So the next step here is we can actually try to reconstruct the blocks that were missing.

Okay, Andrew and Joseph have worked together,
and using Andrew’s decades of research on Ancient Macedon,
they’ve managed to visually reconstruct the rest of the casing that surrounded the sarcophagus
so that we can view what the complete tomb might have looked like for the very first time.
Right, if this stone wasn’t broken, it would look like what?

There we go! It’s incredible!
We need to test that the corner of the spear hits the bottom right-hand corner of the block.
Get out of here! Oh my word!
It hits exactly the spot, and this goes right to the edge of the curve of the sarcophagus,
exactly where there would have been another block.

This is like magic!
It means we have a fit between the casing and the sarcophagus in length as well as in height.
Can you reconstruct the other sides?
Yeah, absolutely! That end—what’s that look like?

Unbelievable! That is incredible!
And can we see the long side over here?
Yeah, let’s go.

Okay, so now this side…
Now we go. Unreal!
A mirror of the opposite side!
Yeah, they were big into symmetry!
Yes, absolutely—symmetry was the whole thing!

Look at that! That is unbelievable!
It just looks so perfect—just perfect in every way!
That’s the way it fits perfectly!

Okay, so Andrew, I don’t want to say that I doubted you,
but when you first hear this story, it sounds far-fetched, right?
It sounds wild!
But when you step through it, it sounds incredibly logical.

We have followed the evidence, we’ve ignored opinions,
and followed the evidence at every step.
We’ve unwound what you’re correct is a very torturous story,
and at the end, we found that we can bring the two parts of the story together:
the sarcophagus in the British Museum and the body that went to Venice.
And when we bring them together, we find they click together precisely,
and they’re literally a physical fit.
Literally, we’ve seen it today, haven’t we?

We have! Are you convinced?
I’m absolutely convinced! This is definitely Alexander’s tomb!
I have to say, I’m really gobsmacked by all of this!
I just can’t believe how compelling the data is
and how well this fits, and the digital picture painted here is just really, really hard to ignore.

Incredible!
Incredible! Thank you so much! Cheers!
And thank you—awesome work! Thank you!