The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a monumental turning point in the success of Alexander and ...

Before Persia became an empire, it was the land of the Elamites. This episode traces Iran’s early civilizations through the ...

Cyrus vs. Alexander: Battle of the Greats Welcome to WatchMojo, and in today’s installment of Versus, we’re pitting Cyrus and Alexander — two of history’s greatest conquerors — against each to ...

Indian-born strategy adviser Bose sees Alexander the Great as a paragon of strategy and leadership for contemporary businesspersons. And apparently, he's not alone: Baz Luhrman, Norman Schwarzkopf, ...

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 shortly ...

Alexander the Great: Legendary Conqueror, about one of history’s greatest military leaders has been snagged by buyers ...

This year fortune favors the old. The earliest war in Western civilization came roaring back in a Greek revival that pitched Brad Pitt into Bronze Age Troy. From another Greek text, Mel Gibson pulled ...

Our knowledge of the ancient world could be rewritten following a shock new claim about Alexander the Great. The Egyptian city of Alexandria – Alexander's most famous relic – was in fact not founded ...

The ‘Great Tumulus’ site in Vergina (once Aegae, the original capital of the ancient kingdom of Macedonia) has been found to be the final resting place of the father, son, and half-brother of the King ...

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 ...