At just 20 years old, Alexander inherited a kingdom—and set out to conquer an empire. His invasion of Persia would shake the world.

Was Alexander the Great really poisoned? Science sheds new light on an age-old question. The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has ...

Did the Romans after seeing his embalming body, break his nose when they discovered that he had an African nose? The nose braking of African Pharaohs and all dignitaries in ancient Egypt who looked ...

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

The situation led a speaker at a recent conference of exiles in Spain to say that rather than the “Great Game”, Afghanistan today was witnessing a “Great Abandonment”.

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...

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.

Alexander the Great died in June 323 B.C. in Babylon, in what is now Iraq, at age 32. By that time, he had conquered an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India. This empire collapsed ...

An exhibition of more than 500 objects, most of them never before seen outside Greece, is set to rewrite knowledge of the Macedonian civilisation that brought forth Alexander the Great – the man who ...

Alexander the Great established himself as Emperor of Asia and urged his generals to marry Persian women in the Susa weddings.

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians.