A prophecy about Alexander the Great is found in the Jewish Book of Daniel, which was written 200 years before his birth.

Cleopatra ruled over Ancient Egypt from 51 to 30 BC and was the last ruler of the Greek Ptolemaic Kingdom in Egypt.

After Alexander the Great’s sudden death, his generals — the Diadochi — carved up his empire and plunged the ancient world into decades of brutal conflict. This video traces the final stages of the ...

Applying the longest average reign length from the historical period to the six pre-Alexander I monarchs yields a foundation date of 573 BC, which the researchers round to 575 BC. This mathematical ...

Excavations in northern Greece are revealing the world that shaped the future king One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to ...

The archaeological site of the Palace of Pella, where Alexander the Great was born, raised and came of age, was officially inaugurated on Tuesday, marking a milestone for cultural heritage in Central ...

Alexander Mosaic, c. 100 B.C.E., Roman copy of a lost Greek painting, House of the Faun, Pompeii. When Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ...