Throne of the Damned

Babylon, 323 BC

After conquering a vast empire, Alexander the Great entered Babylon. In a strange, gloomy and worrying moment, he stepped back from his own golden throne. Immediately, a ragged beggar climbed onto it and sat down. The Persian guards panicked—tearing their clothes and weeping, crying and screaming because, in their tradition, seeing someone else on the king’s throne was a sign of coming death. They tortured the beggar to see if he was part of a conspiracy, but he was just a lost, simple man. Yet the court diviners whispered a chilling interpretation: *It wasn’t the beggar wearing the crown—it was death itself, claiming the throne for another. * That very night, Alexander fell ill with a fever. The man who had ruled from Greece to India grew weak and silent. Days later, he was dead. 

Moral: Fate sits where kings fear to look.

Sham Misri