"Having Alexander buried there would have been the icing on the cake" for the nascent city. A few decades later, accounts by ...

Alexander the Great died at age 32, but his cause of death is unclear. What killed him has been a long-standing source of ...

Ptolemy V was born into a great dynasty. The first Ptolemy was one of Alexander the Great's generals who, around a hundred years earlier, had taken over Egypt following Alexander's death.