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Alexander the Great came to Egypt in 336 and defeated the last of the Persian pharaohs, Darius III. At the time, the Persians were the primary enemy of the Greeks. When he defeated Darius, he was welcomed by the Egyptians and he was crowned as pharaoh in the same year in Memphis. In the following year, he visited the oracle of Amun in Siwa and was declared a "son of Amun". As a result, he founded the Egyptian city of Alexandria on 7 Apr 331 BCE. Almost immediately, he left Egypt to return to Babylon. He never saw the city he founded.
According to the records, he was originally to be buried in Macedonia, but Ptolemy intercepted his body and had him buried in Egypt. His body was mummified and placed in a tomb in Alexandria, his namesake city. The tomb was still visible in Roman times, but the location is unknown today.
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