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.

thanks to modern construction. "The tomb will never be discovered by scholars — at all," Hawass said. "I really believe that by accident one day, the tomb of Alexander the Great will be discovered." ...

At the age of 32, the famed Macedonian king Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C.E. Shortly after his death, his impressive empire, which stretched from the Balkans to modern-day ...

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

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

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

Languages: English, Spanish Archaeologists say they have identified the site where one of Alexander the ... region that corresponds to most of modern-day Turkey. His success at the battle paved ...

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.