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 and the first President of modern Greece Ioannes Kapodistrias employed the Hellenic civilization for the good of humanity ...

One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.

When Alexander the Great passed away, his son, Alexander IV, was still in his mother's womb, making his succession a web of ...

The oracle at Didyma was once one of the most important religious sites in the Greek world until disaster struck. When ...

View post: You're Going to Have to Spend a Lot More to Get the Amex Platinum Sign-Up Bonus Alexander the Great is one of the best-known figures in world history. He only lived until age 32, dying in ...

Alexander the Great’s tomb was once one of the most visited sites in the ancient world. Roman emperors traveled to see it. Then it vanished. Wars, earthquakes, and rebuilding erased its location.

In a misty stretch of northern Greek countryside, wedged between forested hills and a coastal plain west of Thessaloniki, is the modern village of Vergina. But Angeliki Kottaridi, who has spent a ...

Greek archaeologists have announced the discovery of a rare and ancient bust of Alexander the Great—and all they had to do was look through the unexplored corners of the storage in one of their own ...

On June 11, 323 B.C., the famed Alexander the Great died, felled by a mysterious illness that left him too weak to move. Ever since, the cause of the Macedonian leader's death has been debated. Did he ...