Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror still known ...

The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

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Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

Picture Alexander the Great alive today. How would his colossal wealth stack up against the likes of modern-day moguls?

A secret stash of over 1,000 rare gold coins has been discovered hidden inside the walls of a house in France after the owner's death. The collection, built over a lifetime by 89-year-old Paul Nars, ...

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 ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most extraordinary individuals in history. He became king of the fringe Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 336 BC at the age of just 20, and before his death twelve ...

Archaeologists uncovered an ancient lost city in North Macedonia that may be Lyncus, the capital of a once-thriving civilization conquered by King Philip II in 358 B.C.

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.