Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his ... who adds that the Macedonian “redrew the map of the world” by force, where his ...

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been ... easily offended and preoccupied with conquest. In this version of the narrative, Alexander ...

The city may even be the birthplace of Queen Eurydice I, the grandmother of Alexander the Great ... lifetime of Alexander the Great. This coin pushed the city’s timeline back more than a ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity ... Alexander wiped the city off the map by having the men executed, the women and children sold as slaves ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

Alexander the Great died in June 323 B.C. in Babylon, in what is now Iraq, at age 32. By that time, he had conquered an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India. This empire collapsed ...

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have identified the site where one of Alexander the Great's most significant ... of the legendary commander's conquest of Asia Minor—a ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s ...

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality. A 16th-century depiction of Alexander the Great commissioned for ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon ...