Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

A study says it has located the remains of Alexander the Great's father, Philip II, half-brother, King Philip III Arrhidaeus, and his son Alexander IV, at a necropolis in Greece.

A tomb in Greece that was thought to hold Alexander the Great’s father, Philip II, might instead contain the remains of a young woman and six infants, a study suggests.

—Ancient tomb really does hold Alexander the Great's father, controversial study claims — Secrets of Alexander the Great mosaic revealed after 1st-of-its-kind analysis Advertisement ...

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been compared to the mythic Greek hero Achilles. Both were beloved by their soldiers and almost ...

A statue of Alexander the Great in Athens. Antonis Bartsiokas, a paleoanthropologist, has claimed that fabric found in a tomb believed to have held the remains of Alexander’s father, Philip II ...

Alexander the Great was crowned king of Macedon in October 336 B.C.E.. Over the following decade, he conquered an unparalleled territory that grew to span from Greece to northwestern India.

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 ...

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

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...

By Julia Buckley, CNN (CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt to ...