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After his troops mutinied at the Hyphasis River to turn back, Alexander the Great ordered the construction of "twelve altars, as high as the biggest towers and broader even than towers would be." Is there any knowledge of what these structures looked like?

by /u/skourby in /r/AskHistorians

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