Interesting stuff from my reading of Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City, by Edmund Richardson, and a discussion with one of my book groups. My big ah ha: Alexander established many cities named Alexandria!
Charles Masson (1800–1853) was the pseudonym of James Lewis, a British East India Company soldier and reporter, independent explorer and pioneering archaeologist and numismatist. He was the first European to discover the ruins of Harappa near Sahiwal in Punjab, now in Pakistan. He found the ancient city of Alexandria in the Caucasus (modern Begram) dating to Alexander the Great. He unlocked the now-extinct language known as Kharoshthi.
The first book-length biography was published in 2021, Alexandria: The Quest for the Lost City, by Edmund Richardson.
Through his wide-ranging travels, Masson built up an extraordinary collection of artefacts largely (although not exclusively) from the modern states of Afghanistan and Pakistan. Numbering about 9,000 objects, they are now held by the British Museum.
The Fugitive Who Conned His Way Into The Footsteps OfAlexander The Great – And The Quest For His Lost Cities - article about the book
List of cities founded by Alexander the Great
Chronology of the expedition of Alexander the Great into Asia
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