Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ...

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 a ...

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his first monumental victory on the road to becoming history’s greatest ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the clear heir, polygamy, exile, and an assassination made Alexander's path to ...

In June 323 BCE, in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, the most powerful man in the world died. Just 13 days earlier, Alexander the Great—the greatest conqueror the world had seen—had ...

When Alexander the Great passed away, his son, Alexander IV, was still in his mother's womb, making his succession a web of ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt to modern-day India — over 2,000 ...

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