* It was easy becoming a god in ancient Greece
* Sometimes all you needed was a royal background
* and a little error of judgment by the royal physician
* This is exactly what happened in Alexander the Great’s case
* who was alive nearly a week following his ‘death’
* according to a new theory
* Alexander’s body didn’t decompose for six days
* after he was declared dead by the doctors
* The mystery has kept historians and scientists guessing for millennia
* But Dr Katherine Hall of New Zealand’s University of Otago
* says it was "most famous case of pseudothanatos ever recorded"
* Pseudothanatos means ‘false diagnosis of death’
* Yes! Alexander was alive and actually suffering from
* a rare autoimmune disorder known as Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
* Hall believes that that Alexander’s body didn’t decompose
* when he was supposedly dead
* because he was still mentally competent
* Since doctors didn’t know in 4th century BC as much as they do now,
* the best explanation they could come up with was that
* the greatest conqueror of all time was actually some deity
* But then, when you’ve conquered everything between Greece and Punjab,
* the fault is not entirely physician’s, is it?
https://youtu.be/9FGbnmC0dp4