• Alexander was near death for a week, but survived and started fighting again
• Alexander's men survived on seafood at Alexander's Harbor, where he built an altar that has never been found
• He started going through the Macron Desert
• There is almost no water in the desert
• Many people died on the way through
• Only about a quarter of the army survived
• He was offered some water, but poured it away in the sand. He said that if they couldn't drink, he wouldn't either.
• It took him 60 days to get through the desert
• He was the ruler of Persia
• Hephaestian (his friend and lover) died, making Alexander almost suicudal
• He moved back into Iraq
• He was deathly ill, and the veterans came to see him one last time
• June 10th, he died