Below: unidentified woman buried in Susa; 332 BC – possibly Sisygambis, the mother of Darius III. She repudiated her son and took Alexander the Great as her son. When Alexander died, she turned her head to the wall and starved herself to death.


Below: unidentified woman buried in Susa; 332 BC – possibly Sisygambis, the mother of Darius III. She repudiated her son and took Alexander the Great as her son. When Alexander died, she turned her head to the wall and starved herself to death.

