The oracle at Siwa hails Alexander
331 BCE · Event
After a near-fatal desert crossing to the remote oasis of Siwa, the priest of Ammon greets Alexander — by design or mistranslation — as the god's son. He never tells anyone what he asked inside, but from Egypt onward the divine sonship is policy, and his coins grow ram's horns.
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