Analysis shows that clothing discovered in royal tombs of Vergina in Greece could be linked to the king rather than his ...

Besides being a great conqueror, Alexander the Great was known as something of an oenophile. Here's what we know about his ...

Alexander III of Macedonia, better known as Alexander the Great, was a legendary conqueror. After ascending to the throne at ...

This is further confirmed by Ephippus of Olynthus, an ancient Greek author, who wrote about the fact that Alexander in ...

Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...

Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far ...

This book explains what made Alexander 'Great' according to the people and expectations of his time and place and rejects modern judgments asserted on the basis of an implicit moral superiority to ...

The horse was called Bucephalus and the boy would, of course, grow up to be Alexander the Great. Alexander was brought up on stories of Homer’s heroes from the Trojan Wars. He was a true child ...

Archaeologists in Greece have reportedly found what may be the sacred tunic of Alexander the Great in 2424 year-old tomb. In the major breakthrough the team, led by Antonis Bartziokas from ...

Set in Macedonia in 340 BC, the story of the teenage years of Alexander the Great as he struggles to prove himself as a man whilst simultaneoulsy making the most of his childhood.