The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Researchers believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great's troops fought the Battle of the Granicus.

Alexander the Great had one legitimate child, a son named Alexander IV of Macedon. Alexander IV was born in 323 BC to ...

The ancient accounts credit Hermaion as Alexander’s last stop before engaging in battle and ultimately claiming ... The battle was the first in a series of victories over the Persian Empire and its ...

Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July ... He then set out to conquer the massive Persian Empire. Against overwhelming odds, he led his army to victories across ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of ... In the context of ancient Greek warfare ...

An ancient gravesite ... with Alexander the Great later expanding on the concept by imprinting his face on coins that flooded his empire. Augustus of Rome, forty years before Christ, fabricated ...