“Chasing the catafalque” could be the title of Bagdad Djillali Difallah biopic. The discovery of the tomb of Alexander the Great is the result of a work that has lasted more than thirty years and started at first by looking for the sacred relic, better known under the name of: “Ark of the Covenant”.
Obsessed by the secret of the pyramids, tombs and mummies, inexorably, his reading led him to the Ark of the Covenant, the chest containing the tables given by God to Moses during his people exodus three thousand years ago.
While his research has also been carried out in several libraries, historical and cartographic departments in several countries (Syria, Algeria, France, Germany), in order to study some ancient writings, Bagdad Djillali Difallah has done a tremendous job of “visual search” on the ground, in cities of ancient origins, most of them founded by Alexander the Great’s veterans, for major Greco-Roman archaeological units and remains, undoubtedly related to their place of discovery: ancient fort, central monitoring, multiple devices, lookouts, ancient roads, Temenos, Hellenistic vestige, column bases, presence of ancient sources and reservoirs.