Workers at the Egyptian port city of Alexandria have recovered 22 massive stone blocks that were used thousands of years ago ...

Alexander the Great was a young and brief emperor, and after his death his empire began to crumble almost immediately. Many facets of his life, great battles and conquests are well-known, but ...

The story of Greeks in Alexandria goes back more than two millennia, when Alexander the Great established the city.

Thirty years on from its rediscovery, a team of archeologists are attempting to create a digital twin of the Lighthouse of ...

Alexander the Great never saw the city he envisioned and had named after himself almost two and a half millennia ago. He was there to map it out, using grains of barley as the story goes, only to ...

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 ...

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been compared to the mythic Greek hero Achilles. Both were beloved by their soldiers and almost ...

Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, died in Babylon, in what is today Iraq, in 323BC. His body was eventually buried in Alexandria, Egypt, in a tomb that is now lost, but not all his ...

Today, cities from Alexandria in Egypt to Kandahar in Afghanistan are named for Alexander. ... before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him god-like status.

Today, cities from Alexandria in Egypt to Kandahar in Afghanistan are named for Alexander. “I think it’s a combination of his age — he did so much before he died — and the extraordinary ...