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s Thursday, May 1, 1930 LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, OREGON Page Seven "Tomb of Alexander the Great", In Turkish Museum, Is Mis-named A Ily Priscllla IUiik (Associated Press Correspondent) ISTANBUL I XV) While llow- aril Carter dies In Alexandria, Kpypt. for the tomb of Alexander the Great, guides of this Turkish metropolis continue ns for years past to point out I hut tonvh to tourists who visit the National museum here. Splendid though it is, with its marble buH-rcliers depicting- battle and hunting scenes, the mtrcopha . sua In the Ituubul museum never held the hones of Alexander, nor have Turkish authorities ever pre tended that it was his tomb. Hit lit Hey, diroctor of the museum and brother of the great Turkish archaeologist Uaimli Bey, who dis covered the farcuiiliiiffui jn SIdon in 1887, states that It wus con structed towards the end of the fourth century B. c by a l'hlenl ehin king, well after the death of Alexander, 4 Of tho nuiny different supposi tions as to who.se hones this sar cophagus contained, 1-Dilll Bey be lieves the most plausible to bo the conjecture mado . by Gustavo Schlumbcrger who has It that tho l'hoeniciau king Tahulth construct ed it. fur a Greek slave ghi of Ma cedonia whom he greatly loved. VThUK tho king had carved upon the sarcophagus tho effigy of Alexan der, tho great hero of tho dead girl's native land. 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