The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

For centuries, the location of Alexander the Great’s tomb has remained one of the most baffling and captivating mysteries in ...

Alexander the Great died at age 32, but his cause of death is unclear. ... Doherty noted, and Ptolemy I Soter, who ruled Egypt after Alexander's death, may have been the culprit.

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 invincible.

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

What a Great find. New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a “physical description [that] exactly fits” a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great.

Alexander the Great was crowned king of Macedon in October 336 B.C.E.. Over the following decade, he conquered an unparalleled territory that grew to span from Greece to northwestern India.

Alexander built a city around the horse’s tomb, naming it Alexandria Bucephala. By the summer of 323 B.C. , Alexander was in Babylon planning further conquests when he suddenly became sick and died.

Alexander the Great ruled the ancient kingdom of Macedon—centered on the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula—between 336 B.C. until his death in 323 B.C. at the age of 32.

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality. A 16th-century depiction of Alexander the Great commissioned for ...