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Alexander’s Indus Folly: Bizarre Search for the Source of the Nile in India
When the Macedonian monarch Alexander III, popularly known as Alexander the Great, arrived in the northwest of the larger Indian subcontinent in 327 BC following his conquest of the massive Achaemenid Empire of the Persians, he was astonished by...
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