At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map ... “First European.” Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested in the Persian ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This particular site had been unclear for 150 years. In 334 BC, Alexander the ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from ...