The Alexander Romance is an account of the life and exploits of Alexander the Great. Of uncertain authorship, it has been described as "antiquity's most successful novel". The book describes Alexander
Armenian illuminated manuscript of the 14th century
The Darial Gorge before 1906
A coin depicting Alexander wearing the horns of Zeus-Ammon, minted by Lysimachus 40 years after the death of Alexander
The Alexander Romance in a 14th century Byzantine manuscript kept in the Church of San Giorgio dei Greci, Venice.
Gog and Magog, or Ya'juj and Ma'juj, are a pair of names that appear in the Hebrew Bible, the New Testament of the Christian Bible, and the Quran, variously ascribed to individuals, tribes, or lands.
Alexander Romance
…he builds the Caspian Gates out of bronze, coating them with fast-sticking oil. The gates enclosed twenty-two nations and their monarchs, including Gog and Magog (therein called "Goth and Magoth"). The geographic location of these mountains is rather vague, described as a 50-day march away northwards after…
The Gog and Magog people being walled off by Alexander's forces.–Jean Wauquelin's Book of Alexander. Bruges, Belgium, 15th century
Ezekiel's Vision of the Sign "Tau" from Ezekiel IX:2–7. —Mosan champlevé panel, mid-12th century
Gog and Magog besiege the City of Saints. Their depiction with the hooked noses noted by Paul Meyer. —Old French Apocalypse in verse, Toulouse MS. 815, fol. 49v
Devil, Gog and Magog attack the Holy City (from a 17th-century Russian manuscript).