The Battle of the Granicus was a large battle fought between Alexander the Great and the Persian Empire in 334 BC. The battle ...

By Euripides EvriviadesEver since childhood, my imagination was seared by the exploits of Alexander the Great. Like many, I was introduced to them through lessons in classical history. The stories of ...

Scholars have pinpointed the site of Alexander the Great's first major victory, the Battle of the Granicus, using ancient texts and archaeological finds.

The untimely death of Alexander the Great, on June 10, 323 B.C. in Babylon, has long been a topic of hot debate by historians ...

Experts have posed a new theory about how Alexander the Great died after ancient Greece determined he was a 'god.' ...

Stephen Harrison has written what might be called a historiographical biography, as his subtitle suggests. He is vitally concerned with how Alexander has been depicted in both ancient and modern times ...

Alexander the Great personally authorized Lysippos as the only sculptor allowed to create his official statues.

Alexander the Great and the east : history, art, tradition: an introduction / Krzysztof Nawotka and Agnieszka Wojciechowska -- An Egyptian prince at Alexander's court at Asia? : a new interpretation ...

June 19 -- — Way back in the fourth century B.C., a young Alexander the Great thundered across what is now the Middle East in a bloody mission that ranks among the most brilliant military conquests in ...

In June 323 BCE, in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, the most powerful man in the world died. Just 13 days earlier, Alexander the Great—the greatest conqueror the world had seen—had ...