Alexander the Great conquered one of the largest empires the ancient world had ever seen. So why didn't he set his sights on Rome? (Image credit: Andreas Wolochow via Shutterstock) ...

These busts of Philip II (right, Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican) and Alexander the Great (left, Capitoline Museums, Rome), are Roman copies of Greek originals.

Deep beneath the soil of North Macedonia, near the village of Crnobuki, a long-lost city is emerging from the shadows of history. For decades, archaeologists believed these ruins were simply the ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians.

In Greece, Aigai, one of the most important ancient royal capitals and the place where Alexander the Great was crowned, will reopen to the public on Sunday after years of restoration. The ...

A New History of Cleopatra and Alexander the Great Makes the Case for Hellenism The Ptolemaic period in Egypt was glittering — but no match for a rising Rome.

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 ...

Prologue More than any other Greek, Homer (The Poet), Aristotle (The Philosopher), and Alexander the Great (the military genius and pillar of Hellenism), ...

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality. A 16th-century depiction of Alexander the Great commissioned for ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians.