At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...

In May 334 BCE, Alexander the Great won his first victory against the Persian Achaemenid Empire in his campaign to conquer Asia Minor. The Battle of Granicus was the first of three major battles ...

Alexander’s destruction of the Persian city after cleaning out its treasury is often treated as the beginning of his despotic downfall. But as Kousser shows, he lived to regret the fire.

Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India in just 13 years, when he was king of Macedonia. His conquest started in Persia, where he battled King Darius III's ...

After Alexander’s death, Persia became part of the Seleucid Greek empire and developed a distinctive artistic and architectural fusion that helped enrich the culture that became modern Iran. 9. Iraq ...

Alexander, who ruled from 336 to 323 B.C., is renowned for his 11-year campaign in Asia, during which he conquered the Persian Empire before dying mysteriously in its capital city of Babylon at ...

A statue of Alexander the Great is pictured in Athens, Greece, on May 3, 2019. ... Cotton, a material foreign to ancient Greece, was imported from Persia, ...

He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before dying, aged just 32. Alexander the Great’s legacy has given him ...

The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier, so when Alexander came to conquer the Middle East he had to conquer an organized empire. He was not the first.” ...

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 ...