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. But ...

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his first monumental victory on the road to becoming history’s greatest ...

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In a misty stretch of northern Greek countryside, wedged between forested hills and a coastal plain west of Thessaloniki, is the modern village of Vergina. But Angeliki Kottaridi, who has spent a ...

Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the ...

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Our knowledge of the ancient world could be rewritten following a shock new claim about Alexander the Great. The Egyptian city of Alexandria – Alexander's most famous relic – was in fact not founded ...

Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, built one of history's largest empires. He led his army across Asia and Egypt.

Alexander the Great’s father’s remains have been identified in a Greek tomb using X-ray analysis, a new study says. The new international — yet controversial study — states that archaeologists ...

Archaeologists say they have unraveled the identities of human remains in an ancient Greek royal tomb that are "among the most historically important" skeletons in Europe. According to a study ...