One of the most famous artworks of the ancient world reads almost like a map of the Roman Empire's power.

Book Review Alexander at the End of the World: The Forgotten Final Years of Alexander the Great By Rachel Kousser Mariner Books: 416 pages, $35 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may ...

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.

Watching Netflix’s Alexander and thinking of Origin helped me realize why the latter didn’t ultimately work for me. Of course, Alexander: The Making of a God isn’t necessarily aiming for art.

Metal detectorists have discovered a "unique" artifact that archaeologists say features a depiction of Alexander the Great, and is mystifying the experts surprised at the location of the find ...

The story starts with Alexander, the Macedonian conqueror who by age 30 had won an empire that stretched to India from Greece. It ends with a Roman marching into the city that bears his name. Egypt ...

The Roman Empire was highly man-centric – unlike present-day America, which is only “predominantly man-centric” – so apparently a lot of my fellow brosephs like reflecting on the days of ...

Alexander the Great’s own resting place is still a mystery. During his 13-year reign, Alexander became the King of Persia, King of Greece, Lord of Asia, and the Pharaoh of Egypt, as well as King ...

"It's sort of like the great man version of history, where men rise to fame in '300' or 'Gladiator' through direct physical means, prowess on the battlefield, force of rhetoric," Anderson says.

One of his generals, Ptolemy, got control of Alexander the Great's body and brought it to Memphis, Egypt, in 321 B.C., Chris Naunton, an Egyptologist who is director of the U.K.-based Robert ...

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 ...