Alexander the Great lived a short life even by the standards of his time. The former king of Macedonia died mysteriously at the age of 32, though he had already conquered much of the civilized world ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

This empire collapsed shortly after his death, with his generals and officials carving it up into different kingdoms. But how did Alexander the Great die? The answer has been a long-standing ...

Alexander the Great was a young and brief emperor, and after his death his empire began to crumble almost immediately. Many facets of his life, great battles and conquests are well-known ...

Stock image of a statue of Alexander the Great in Thessaloniki ... accounts of the death of Philip, who was assassinated shortly after his wife, Cleopatra, gave birth. Cleopatra and the baby ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been ... near-misses and anticlimactic death. With ‘Compton in My Soul,’ Albert M.

For whom the monument was built is a matter of debate, but Hephaestion (also spelled Haphaestion), whose death in 324 B.C. sent Alexander the Great into ... associated with birth and fertility ...