Alexander the Great died at age 32, but his cause of death is unclear. What killed him has been a long-standing source of ...

Born in 356 BCE in Pella, Alexander the Great became one of history's most renowned figures and was considered the first of ...

Professor Christian de Vartavan shares groundbreaking insights into the search for Alexander the Great's tomb and the fate of ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...

Alexander’s legacy is no stuffy history lesson. In fact ... While you might imagine that tours following in the steps of a ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

And his story reminds us of the uncomfortable truth, that war - however horrible - is one of the great change-makers in human history. He takes a look at stories of Alexander’s childhood and ...

Related: 2nd-century Alexander the Great statue with lion's-mane hairstyle unearthed in Turkey It was still there around 300 years later, when the first Roman emperor, Augustus (reigned 27 B.C. to ...

Alexander’s legacy is no stuffy history lesson. In fact ... While you might imagine that tours following in the steps of a great warrior might be male-focused, Sommer says that “we have ...

Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group/Getty Images In fact, says Briant, there’s a simple reason why, 2,000 years on, we talk about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the ...