Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

A Greek research team used radiocarbon dating to make a shocking discovery about Alexander the Great's family.

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered three ancient tombs of prominent statesman in Luxor. The tombs date back to the New ...

Most visitors never experience the natural masterpieces that lie off the tourist trail—from bubbling hot springs to unearthly ...

Alexander the Great died in June 323 B.C. in Babylon ... and Ptolemy I Soter, who ruled Egypt after Alexander's death, may have been the culprit. Although it's unlikely that Alexander's body ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the ... cities across the east — no Alexandria in Egypt, no Kandahar, etc.," Holt said.

His body was taken to Egypt and was said to have been entombed ... But Cartledge also says Alexander was a great propagandist. Two thousand years on, we still largely believe ‘his’ side ...

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been ... When he burned Persepolis, he had just returned from Egypt, where he had proclaimed himself ...

One of the best examples of Alexander’s impact on Egypt was in the founding of the ... had a succession of powerful empires and was the great prize of the Fertile Crescent.

Alexander the Great's vast empire was built upon his keen and continuously changing battle tactics, which depended on the enemy and terrain.