Alexander the Great died at age 32, but his cause of death is unclear. What killed him has been a long-standing source of ...

But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else. Given this pattern of constant conquest—Cyrus the Great in the sixth century B.C., and Alexander the Great two ...

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 ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his ... before dying in Babylon in today’s Iraq. Over 2,000 years later, travelers can still ...