Meet The 4,000-Year-Old Olive Tree That Saw The Rise And Fall Of Alexander The Great’s Empire—A Biologist Explains
The olive tree of Vouves has survived fire, droughts and other climatic shifts while watching history unfold over millennia.
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Archaeologists In Greece Just Uncovered What May Be The Royal Tunic Of Alexander The Great
For more than two millennia, the death and burial of Macedonian king Alexander the Great have been shrouded in mystery. He perished in 323 B.C.E. after suffering from a baffling illness for 12 days — ...
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Alexander the Great’s Perilous Pilgrimage to the Siwa Oracle
After Alexander the Great conquered Egypt, he embarked on a perilous journey to the Oracle at Siwa to seek answers to his questions.
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Anaxarchus: The Greek Philosopher Who Followed Alexander the Great on His Campaigns
Anaxarchus, a Greek philosopher at Alexander the Great’s court, upheld wisdom and detachment, reflecting on the fleeting ...
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Trump is no Alexander the Great. His sword is a club, and he’s a Neanderthal flailing about
In Sunday’s Bee, Victor Davis Hanson compares Donald Trump with Alexander The Great, the ruler of the ancient world. He used his sword to slash the Gordian knot. But, the distortions of fact in ...
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Olympia presenting the young Alexander the Great to Aristotle
34.2 x 44.8 cm. (13.5 x 17.6 in.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...
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1,800-Year-Old Mini Portrait of Alexander the Great Turns Up in Surprising Location
Today, Alexander the Great is widely considered antiquity’s preeminent military commander. As it turns out, his battleground fame was so far flung that, even 500 years after his death ...
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Alexander the Great (356 - 323 BC)
Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...
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The Sarcophagus of Alexander the Great.
Investigations were made and finally the conclusion was reached that it was the sarcophagus of Alexander the Great. Its sculpture, on this theory, represents the battle of Arbela, a lion hunt and ...