At the age of 32, the famed Macedonian king Alexander the Great died in Babylon in 323 B.C.E. Shortly after his death, his impressive empire, which stretched from the Balkans to modern-day ...

The Wars of Alexander's successors, were a series of conflicts that erupted among the generals 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 — ...

Anaxarchus, a Greek philosopher at Alexander the Great’s court, upheld wisdom and detachment, reflecting on the fleeting ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dr Lonsdale does not agree with the conspiracy theories surrounding Alexander's death, which he thinks was probably the result of accumulated injuries and disease, not helped by his drinking.

The Macedonians were famous across Greece for being great drinkers, and Alexander was no exception. But this fight was just a bit worse than your average drunken brawl. After the death of Cleitus ...