Andrew Schulz

And he had an architect, I forget the architect's name, but he had an architect jump down with him and they lay it out so that the breeze will sweep through the city.

And he says, I want the roads to be 100 feet wide or something equivalent to that.

He wants this to be a grand city.

So he lays it all out.

And then as soon as he lays it all out, this flock of seabirds swoop down and they eat all, they devour all the grain

in front of him and ancient people are very superstitious.

And so he thought that that was a bad omen.

He was like, maybe I shouldn't build the city here or whatever.

And one of his guys like reassured him, no, no, no, no.

This means that this city is going to feed many nations or it's gonna feed many people.

So Alexander gets back on his horse, leaves his architect and a group of people behind.

They start construction on the city.

Yeah, exactly.

I mean, what a story, right?

Yeah, exactly.

So Alexander, he has to leave.

He's got to go to a place in the western desert called Siwa where he's going to be essentially like proclaim the son of Amun-Ra and he's going to be proclaimed pharaoh.

He never goes back to Alexandria.

He goes and conquers Babylon.

Then he tries to push into India and he eventually dies in Babylon at like 32 or 33.