Researchers believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great's troops fought the Battle of the Granicus.

In early November 333 BC, Alexander the Great crushed the massive Persian forces led by King Darius III at the Battle of ...

Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was to capture the imagination of his contemporaries and future generations. His image abounds in various cultures and literatures - Eastern and Western - and spread ...

If Alexander were defeated by the Persians at the Battle of Gaugamela, which took place in northern Iraq in 331 B.C., then ...

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Before battling the mighty Persians, Alexander the Great paid homage at the tomb of the greatest Greek warrior of the Trojan ...

One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with honored guests. They had come from across Greece and the Balkans to attend ...

At the archaeological site of Vergina, the ancient Aigai and first capital of Macedonia, archaeologists unearthed several monumental tombs in the 1980s. Three of those tombs contained a singular and ...

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 the ...

A new Netflix series about the life of Alexander the Great, which includes scenes of him with a male lover, has faced criticism from some Greek officials, and some historians say that although the ...

Between Netflix and the History Channel, there’s been a whole lot of docuseries that combine expert interviews with extensive scripted reenactments. It’s a hybrid format that aims to give context to ...