One possibility is outside Egypt, and the discovery of a stone sarcophagus decorated with Alexander the Great imagery in Sidon, Lebanon, led to speculation that he might have been buried there.

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Excavations carried out by an Egyptian mission near the Aga Khan Mausoleum on Aswan's west bank uncovered an anthropoid sandstone sarcophagus with a mummy inside of a Late Period tomb. Mostafa ...

The sarcophagus itself was chiseled out of a single block of limestone and covered with a heavy flagstone. When it was placed in the tomb, it would probably have been painted red.