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.

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 ...

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 ...

Alexander the Great is one of the legendary conquerors of ancient history who sparked the imagination of generations of students of history and Greek culture. The countries that were added to his ...

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 ...

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.

Historical sources report that the body of Alexander the Great was then transferred to Memphis, the ancient capital of pharaonic Egypt, and although it is officially unknown where the tomb was ...