Alexander the Great is one of the best-known figures in world history. He only lived until age 32, dying in Babylon. But ...

Alexander the Great conquered the known world, even pushing the borders of his sprawling empire into the uncharted ...

Alexander was born in Pella, the ancient capital of Macedonia in July 356 BC. His parents were Philip II of Macedon and his wife Olympias. Alexander was educated by the philosopher Aristotle.

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential culprit.

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.

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 ...

He was succeeded by his 20-year-old son, Alexander (pictured in a mosaic from Pompeii). The rest is world history: by the time he died in 323bc, Alexander the Great commanded an empire stretching ...

Alexander’s legacy is no stuffy history lesson. In fact, the story of the young man from Macedonia who pushed to the boundaries of the world has had fans from the word go.