The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...

The Battle of the Granicus was a large battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire in 334 BC. The battle took place along the Granicus River in what is now modern-day Turkey.

The Battle of Issus, fought in 333 BC, was one of the most pivotal moments in ancient history. On one side stood Alexander the Great, the young and ambitious king of Macedon, leading his army of ...

Stephen Harrison has written what might be called a historiographical biography, as his subtitle suggests. He is vitally concerned with how Alexander has been depicted in both ancient and modern times ...

Archaeologists in North Macedonia believe they may have found the remains of Lyncus, the lost capital city of Lyncestis that was settled in the mountainous region of Upper Macedonia sometime in the ...

Archeologists thought an excavation site was just a military outpost–but after further study, they realized it was actually an entire ancient city. Artifacts found at the site date the city back to ...

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the clear heir, polygamy, exile, and an assassination made Alexander's path to ...

Prologue: Persepolis 488 BCE -- Part one: establishing empire -- the Medes and the Persians -- See, the conqu'ring hero comes -- The many deaths-and births-of Cyrus the Great -- The sceptre of Egypt - ...

Alexander the Great and the east : history, art, tradition: an introduction / Krzysztof Nawotka and Agnieszka Wojciechowska -- An Egyptian prince at Alexander's court at Asia? : a new interpretation ...

A grand tomb that may have been built for Alexander the Great's best friend and bodyguard around 2,300 years ago has an astronomical secret: Its burial chamber is aligned so that sunlight enters it on ...

In June 323 BCE, in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, the most powerful man in the world died. Just 13 days earlier, Alexander the Great—the greatest conqueror the world had seen—had ...