Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire. He made it as far as the Indus River in modern-day Pakistan, and even ...