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 Empire.

Alexander the Great's siege of the island city of Tyre used all the innovation and cunning worthy of a conqueror still known ...

Alexander the Great’s accomplishments in the fourth century B.C. were breathtaking. The son of a powerful king and an ambitious queen, Alexander was born in 356 B.C. He studied under Aristotle ...

Only one ancient portrait preserves the image of Darius III, the king who lost two great battles to Alexander the Great and ceded control of the Persian Empire.A Roman mosaic artist of the first ...

The Netflix series “Alexander: The Making of a God” examines the relationship between the Macedonian leader and his longtime companion. Here’s what historians do and don’t know.