The mysterious tomb of Alexander the Great may not have been found yet, but do we at least know what it looked like?

The Persian Empire, founded in the 6th century BCE by Cyrus the Great, became one of history’s most powerful and influential empires. At its height, it spanned three continents,covering parts of ...

In a startling development, archaeologists say these mysterious skeletons are the father and son of this legendary ruler.

The legendary Macedonian King Alexander III, famously known as Alexander the Great (who was educated by the titanic Greek ...

There are no fewer than seven theatres of war in the world today which have invited more than our passing attention. I am ...

Archaeologists have discovered a once-bustling city with buildings that had multiple storeys, and a temple of the cobra ...

Introduction Europeans did not think we would find out about our black human species that inhabited Europe before the arrival of the Caucasians from the Caucasus Mountains in Central Asia .

Few figures from the ancient world grip the modern imagination as powerfully as Alexander the Great and Cleopatra VII, the last pharaoh. They are the bookends for Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson’s new ...

Alexander the Great forged one of the largest empires of ancient history. But his early death, aged 32, ensured that it came crashing down within decades of his passing. In many ways, the story of ...

His conquests at war, such his victory at the Battle of Guagamela in northern Iraq, led him to be known as Alexander the Great. He died of a fever in Babylon in June 323BC.

Egypt goes from glory to disaster in this lively history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egyptologist Wilkinson (Ramesses the Great) begins with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BCE and ...

Read a biography about Alexander the Great from his early life to becoming a military leader. How did he change the nature of the ancient world?