Too much for one person, too little for all. I’ll admit this passage goes hard! Alexander’s army is crossing the unforgiving Gedrosian desert after his campaign in India. The only person believed to have managed to take an army via that route was the legendary Assyrian Queen Semiramis. The source is Arrian’s Anabasis, Book 6/ Chap. 26. There are three versions of the story. According to Plutarch, it was early in Alexander’s campaign, while the conqueror was chasing the Persian king, Darius III (