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Episode: 1291 Poisoned by the Queen: The Woman Who Killed Alexander the Great
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EP. #1291 Poisoned by the Queen: The Woman Who Killed Alexander the Great
In the opulent palace of Babylon, 323 BC, Alexander the Great—conqueror of empires—collapsed after a single cup of wine. Ten days of agony later, the world's most powerful man was dead at 32, his vast empire fracturing into chaos. History calls it fever or fate. But Graham Phillips, in his explosive book Alexander the Great: Murder in Babylon, proves it was deliberate murd...