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More than two thousand years, the death of Alexander the Great remains unanswered. The most accepted version is that he fell ill after a night of drinking and died a few days later. According to Katherine Hall, a researcher at the University of Otago, the death of the Macedonian king may have been caused by Guillain Barré Syndrome. She explains that this condition causes muscle weakness, changes in the level of consciousness and, in some cases, weakening of the lungs. Thus, due to the limitations of medicine at the time, it is possible that Alexander was declared dead while he was still alive. The author believes he could have overheard the generals discussing the succession. Furthermore, he could have heard the arrival of the Egyptian embalmers and the completion of their work. Therefore, despite there being nothing supernatural in the story, the king's body showed no signs of decomposition even after seven days of his death, which contributed to the idea that he was divine.
