A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

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.

A study reveals that the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis, Greece, built by Alexander for Hephaestion, was solar-aligned with the ...

A new Netflix series about the life of Alexander the Great, which includes scenes of ... general may very well have had same-sex relations, modern conceptions of being gay or straight cannot ...

a nearly 200-year-old civilization founded by Cyrus the Great in modern-day Iran. By 330 B.C., Alexander had succeeded in bringing its king, Darius III, to his knees. According to the Conquest of ...

In 333 BCE, near the small Pinarus River along the modern-day borders of Turkey and Syria, a fierce battle took place between the forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius III.

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian ... Aramaic inscriptions found in modern-day Afghanistan and archaeological remains of his conquests, Kousser teases out the forgotten perspectives ...

Next are all the modern countries that were once all or in part included in Alexander’s empire ... had a succession of powerful empires and was the great prize of the Fertile Crescent.

A day of entertainment ... reign, Alexander had accrued all the skills and experience necessary to make his own mark upon history. He would come to be known as Alexander the Great.