SUMMARY Alexander the Great’s siege of Tyre in 332 BCE was a pivotal moment in his conquest of the Persian Empire. Despite initial setbacks, Alexander’s forces eventually breached the city’s ...

No man is an island, but it turns out all Alexander the Great needed to take over an entire island was a little help from Mother Nature. A half-mile-long spit of sand once linked the ancient ...

The son of a king, Alexander was a brilliant military leader who conquered most of the known world—but he wasn't much of a diplomat. Alexander the Great slices the Gordian Knot with his sword in ...

Alexander the Great was just 23 years old when he stood on the coast of what is now Lebanon, gazing offshore at the tiny Phoenician island city of Tyre, a powerful commercial centre.

During his reign, Alexander the Great had a massive impact in his time and sent ripples into the future. "In a reign of 13 years Alexander shot across the Greek and Middle Eastern firmament like a ...

A statue of Alexander the Great in Athens. Antonis Bartsiokas, a paleoanthropologist, has claimed that fabric found in a tomb believed to have held the remains of Alexander’s father, Philip II ...

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When Tyre resisted Alexander the Great, however, its luck ran out. Building a causeway from the mainland, Alexander took the city in 332 B.C. and executed thousands of its inhabitants.

Researchers say they have figured out how the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great was able to build a nearly kilometer-long road over the sea to strike at the island of Tyre in 332 B.C. Based ...

Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New ... after successfully laying siege to Tyre, Alexander had 30,000 Tyrians sold into slavery and crucified 2,000 more as an example of what would happen to ...