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

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels ... Iraq. “The bus stopped and sand was in my face, pulling ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the ... “The bus stopped and sand was in my face, pulling at my clothes,” they say. “I thought, Alexander must have had such ...

What Alexander achieved in his 32 years is “unique,” says Paul Cartledge, AG Leventis professor emeritus of Greek culture at the University of Cambridge, who adds that the Macedonian “redrew the map ...