Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-28
ALEXANDER TOMB
SEARCH PLANNED
Discoverer of King Tut's
Grave to Hunt Remains
of Conqueror.
BY JAMES WALDO FAwCETT.

bx JAMES NA1ADO EAWCETT.
Howard Carter, the discoverer of the
tomb Of Tut Ankh-Amen in Egypt, is
about to undertake tbs search for the
last resting place of Alexander the
Great, according to reports published
abroad.
Acting on the theory that Alexander
Is Identical with the Zul-Karnein of
Arabic history, Mr.. Carter plans to
look for his tomb in Solior PompeiopoliS,
Asia Minor. He believes that he will
find the object of his quest intact
Soil is very ancient site on the
coast of Cilicia, between the rivers
Lamus and F'yramus. The town was
founded by colonists from Argos in
Greece and Indus in Rhodes, and is
first mentioned in connection with the
expedition of the younger Cyrus. Pros
porous and populous for generations, it
was destroyed by TigraneS in the NTH
radatic war. Pompey rebuilt and re-
named the place and settled there
many pirates he had captured. The
city was cosmopolitan in character. and
the variety of Greek spoken within its
boundaries was so imperfect that it
gave rise to the term ''solecism" which
we still employ.
Ruins Now Quarry.
Little remains Of the town today: its
ruins have been a quarry for many
years for building materials for the
modern city of Mersina. Mr.. Carter
will endeavor to find the relics of the
Nebi-Daniel mosque which was erected
on or near the site of mosque named
for Zul-Karnein. The researches of
Prince Omar TouSsoun and Prof
Breccia have furnished clues to the
location. In recent years there have
been no excavations at Soil, and Mr..
Carter will have a virgin field in
which to work
Should the present effort prove sue
cessful, the world will be given just such
another view behind the scenes of an
Gent history as 1t received when Mr.
Carter disclosed the wonders of the
mausoleum Of the long dead Pharaoh
seven years ago. His new search will
be watched with keen interest by the
lay public as well as by professional
Psychologists.
The name Of Alexander still retains
its hold upon the imagination of man
kind. 1t is generally conceded that his
Is the most colorful and romantic figure
of the period to which he belonged
His celebrity is international: he is
claimed by both East and West, and
scores Of legends center about his
career.
OF Mixed Temperament.
Born In 356 B. c., he was the son of
Philip III Of Macedon and his wife,
Olympias, an Epirote princess. His
father" we are told, twas pre-eminent
for practical genius: his mother was
woman of half-wild blood, weird, vision
airy and terrible" With this heredity,
alexander himself is singular among
men OF action for the imaginative
splendors which guided him. and
among romantic dreamers for the
things he achieved" H. @. Wells saws.
eThe strong sanity he inherited from
his father made him great soldier:
the teaching Of Aristotle (who was his
tutor for several years in his boyhood)
had given him something of the scien-
tine outlook upon the world But also
Alexander had the unstable emotional
1maginativeneSs of his mother"
The key to his whole life is to be
found, according to modern writers, In
this mixed psychology; struggle went
on In his soul which now and again
prompted actions which otherwise can
not be understood; he was q Macedo-
MAN Hamlet, but his triumphs over
nlmSeu were more numerous than those
OF the Danish prince inmortalized by
ShakeSpeare-he had the same unfor-
tunate lack of balance ard when this is
remembered his achievements take on a
new significance.
Alexander, Wells explains, was "a
specially educated king; he was edu-
Gated for empire He was nursed
into power-generously and unsuspici-
ously." His father, lone of the great
est monarchs the world has ever seen"
conhded his policy to his son and en-
trusted him with commands and au-
thority by the time he was 16. He led
the cavalry against the Thsban Sacred
Band at the Battle of Chaeronea, in
August, $685. THE court at which he
grew up was the focus of great activi-
ties; the air was charged with great
ideas. To unite the Greek race
IN a war against the Persian Empire
was set up as the ultimate mark for
ambition, the theme of idealists."
Persia Menaced Greece.
For generations the active threat Of
Persia had hung over Greece; to re-
move that curse was the dream of the
noblest leaders of the age. Ambition
was not all that stimulated Philip to
plan the invasion of the Persian realm
and which after his assassination, in
1876 BIC, goaded his gifted son to