The next Civ 6 leader has been announced by Firaxis Games. Alexander the Great and his countrymen the Macedonians will be coming to the game via the Spring 2017 update. Persia's Cyrus the Great was ...

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 ...

Can you give just a general definition of what's meant by the term the Hellenistic world? The Hellenistic world is that world that was created after the conquests of the near east by Alexander the ...

In a misty stretch of northern Greek countryside, wedged between forested hills and a coastal plain west of Thessaloniki, is the modern village of Vergina. But Angeliki Kottaridi, who has spent a ...

Ever 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 the young Macedonian ...

Greece has reopened the ancient palace where Alexander the Great became King of Macedonia some 2,400 years ago after it underwent restoration. The Palace of Aigai, formally known as the Royal ...

The Netflix series “Alexander: The Making of a God” examines the relationship between the Macedonian leader and his longtime companion. Here’s what historians do and don’t know. Sisygambis, mother of ...

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 333 B ...

The name Alexander the Great is considered legendary. It stands for power and a drive that refused to quit. More than two ...

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

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 ...