Alexander the Great forged one of the largest empires of ancient history. But his early death, aged 32, ensured that it came crashing down within decades of his passing. In many ways, the story of ...

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the clear heir, polygamy, exile, and an assassination made Alexander's path to ...

After his mighty victory at the Granicus in 334 B.C., Alexander the Great sweeps deeper into Persia in this multilayered and entertaining mystery, but when his army captures the city of Ephesus, the ...

History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from ...

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 ...

A Greek researcher says a piece of purple-and-white fabric discovered decades ago in a tomb in northern Greece may have belonged to Alexander. Others disagree. By Lynsey Chutel Could it be a scrap of ...

French and Egyptian researchers are making a "digital twin" of the Lighthouse of Alexandria in Egypt after lifting its ancient submerged blocks out of the Mediterranean Sea. A tomb that may have been ...