Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of ...

The massive global shortcut linking the Mediterranean and Red Seas took ten years to dig through the Isthmus of Suez and was built on the path of an ancient canal ...

Ptolemy, who was the governor of Egypt at that time, brought Alexander’s body to Memphis ... It experienced a number of ...

The conquests of Alexander the Great in the late fourth century BC resulted ... the most well-known being Alexandria in Egypt. Under the Alexandrian empire, Jews living in countries west of the Levant ...

These accounts were written in the shadow of Alexander the Great’s conquest of the Near East ... king Artaxerxes III’s campaign against Egypt, and rose to the rank of Chiliarch (the leader ...

Ever since the first reports of the incredible splendours and riches of India began reaching Europe after the conquests ... century BCE, Alexander the Great’s successors in Egypt, the Ptolemies ...

When Alexander the Great turns up here ... The Golden Road gets going in my view with the Roman conquest of Egypt -- the Battle of Actium with the death of Marc Antony and Cleopatra leads to ...

Justin Jacobs, author and expert in modern Chinese history, discusses loot, antiquity, and imperialism in his new book.

There was no Hebrew sojourn in Egypt. Nor was there an Exodus. Nor was there a conquest of Canaan by the ... But it ended when Alexander conquered the Persians, in the 330s BCE.

In Egypt, star charts were used to determine ... Where East Meets West The rise of the Hellenistic world, following Alexander ...