The Battle of the Granicus was a large battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire in 334 BC. The battle ...

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 shortly ...

The Battle of Issus, fought in 333 BC, was one of the most pivotal moments in ancient history. On one side stood Alexander ...

Alexander the Great, known as Iskandar or Dhul-Qarnayn in Islam, holds a unique place in Islamic history as a figure with ...

The complex relationship between Alexander the Great and his father Philip II, marked by rivalry, admiration, and a legacy of ...

Alexander the Great ascended the Macedonian throne at age 20 and died just 12 years later, having conquered one of the largest empires in the ancient world. During that time, did he father any ...

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his first monumental victory on the road to becoming history’s greatest ...

A new Netflix series about the life of Alexander the Great, which includes scenes of him with a male lover, has faced criticism from some Greek officials, and some historians say that although the ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt to modern-day India — over 2,000 ...

In life, Alexander the Great stamped his mark across the known world. Today, the search for tangible evidence of his fleeting existence continues. While the prospect of uncovering Alexander’s tomb ...

The epic poems of Homer inspired the Greeks for millennia. The first epic, the Iliad, tells the story of the Trojan War, according to which, about hundreds of Achaean / Greek ships from all over ...

Alexander the Great’s father’s remains have been identified in a Greek tomb using X-ray analysis, a new study says. The new international — yet controversial study — states that archaeologists ...