HEART transplants are a recent phenomenon. Stomach transplants have yet to be attempted. (Gluttons are counting the days.) Head transplants, however have been practised for millennia, especially when the head is crowned.
For example, Alexander the Great’s vast empire was large enough – stretching from Greece to the Indus – to satisfy the covetous ambitions of his many generals. After Alexander’s death, one of them – Ptolemy I Soter – ousted the earlier rulers of Egypt and founded the Ptolemaic dynasty which lasted 300 years.
