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

Cyrus vs. Alexander: Battle of the Greats Welcome to WatchMojo, and in today’s installment of Versus, we’re pitting Cyrus and Alexander — two of history’s greatest conquerors ...

Alexander the Great is one of the best-known figures in world history. He only lived until age 32, dying in Babylon. But first, he built a massive empire that stretched from "the Balkans to India." ...

Alexander the Great’s childhood has often been presented as a time of conflict between his parents, Philip II and Olympias. But this image, so often explored in novels and films, is likely ...

Artifacts rewrite the city’s timeline The most groundbreaking find was a coin minted between 325 and 323 BCE—during the lifetime of Alexander the Great. This coin pushed the city’s timeline ...

Mr. Wilkinson’s story really gets going with Alexander’s successor, Ptolemy. He was one of the Great’s generals, and after Alexander died at Babylon, he hastened to Egypt to claim that corner of the ...

For whom the monument was built is a matter of debate, but Hephaestion (also spelled Haphaestion), whose death in 324 B.C. sent Alexander the Great into severe grief, is considered a leading ...

At first, the site was believed to have been built during the reign of King Philip V (221 B.C.E. to 179 B.C.E.), but a discovery of a coin minted during Alexander the Great’s life suggested ...