The last native pharaoh fled the Persians and never used his sarcophagus, and the British took it from Alexandria in 1801 as the tomb of Alexander

Nectanebo II was the last native Egyptian king. In 343 BC the Persian king Artaxerxes III restored Persian rule. Nectanebo fled south and never regained power. His sarcophagus, carved with texts from the Amduat, was never used for his burial. Later legend made him the father of Alexander the Great. In Alexandria the sarcophagus ended up in the courtyard of the Attarine Mosque, formerly the church of St Athanasius, where twelve holes were drilled in it and it served as an ablution basin. Local people called it the tomb of Iskander, the founder of the city. During the French occupation, Denon and Dolomieu found it, and the French removed it. The scholar Edward Daniel Clarke wrote that it left "amid the howling and lamentation of its worshippers." The French hid it in the hold of a hospital ship in the harbour. After the French surrendered in 1801, merchants told Clarke where it was. He found it half full of filth under the rags of sick men. General Hutchinson ordered it taken, and Colonel Turner shipped it to England. Clarke published it in 1805 as the tomb of Alexander. It was later identified as Nectanebo's. It has been in the British Museum since 1802.