The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter ...

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

Greece is set to construct the world's first educational and entertainment theme park dedicated to Alexander the Great ... In his presentation at the conference, he emphasized that theme parks ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, to which she belonged, was founded by Ptolemy I Soter, one of the four generals of Alexander the Great (Ptolemy ... and aesthetic presentation. Cleopatra on the Terraces of ...

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals. Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of ...

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 Great died in June 323 B.C. in Babylon, in what is now Iraq, at age 32. By that time, he had conquered an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India. This empire collapsed ...

Here’s how it works. Alexander the Great is one of the most famous generals of the ancient world. By the age of 32 he had conquered a massive empire that stretched from the Balkans to modern-day ...

In 333 BCE, near the small Pinarus River along the modern-day borders of Turkey and Syria, a fierce battle took place between the forces of Alexander the Great and the Persian king Darius III.

Experts have identified a site in northwest Turkey as that of the Battle of the Granicus, a major victory for Alexander the Great. The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided ...