Tristan Hughes

Tristan Hughes was born in Chichester and studied Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Having graduated in summer 2018, he currently works as a producer and presenter at History Hit and is the host of The Ancients history podcast. He is the author of Alexander’s Successors at War: The Perdiccas Years and

Did Ptolemy I steal Alexander the Great’s corpse?

After Alexander the Great died, what happened to his body? Ancient sources make clear that Ptolemy I stole Alexander’s corpse while in transit to its burial place.