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While their lives and legacies differ significantly, scholars argue that Alexander the Great set the stage for Jesus's ...
Two titans of ancient conquest go head-to-head! Join us as we compare Cyrus the Great and Alexander the Great across five ...
Astonishing details of Alexander the Great's personal armory as he prepared for the Battle of Gaugamela against the Persians ...
Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander, politician, scholar and explorer, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that ...
and his son Alexander the Great. Sculptures are first-century Roman copies of Greek originals. A. Dagli Orti / De Agostini Picture Library / Bridgeman Images; DEA / G. Dagli Orti / Getty Images I ...
An epic movie that follows the life of Alexander the Great, the Macedonian King that conquered all of the ancient Greek tribes and led the Macedonian Army against the vast Persian Empire.
An engrossing spectacle set in the 4th-century BC, in which Alexander of Greece leads his troops forth, conquering all of the known world, in the belief that the Greek way of thinking will bring ...
Roman ships equipped with bronze rams sank dozens of Carthaginian ships during a major naval battle in 241 BCE – now we know ...
Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire ... to unite all of the Greek polities into a single political entity.
His father hired the great philosopher ... create a new kind of almost multi-cultural empire. Alexander wanted to actually mingle Macedonian and Greek customs with Persian customs.
3 part history series Ancient Empires premieres tonight on SBS.