The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet ... He swept across Asia beginning in 334 B.C., leading a combined Greek and Macedonian army, and in a series of three brilliantly managed battles ...

But Alexander's most grievous wound nearly killed the king, and it couldn't have come at a worse time for the Macedonian Army. Shortly after crossing the Indus River, they encountered the army of ...

The palace was the ceremonial hub for the Macedonian dynasty ... before his weary army rebelled. They turned back but on the way home, Alexander was struck by a two-week fever and died in Babylon.

The bodies in the tombs are of Alexander the Great’s father, King Philip II, who reigned between 359 and 336 B.C.E. and built up the huge Macedonian army which his son would later command ...

Alexander the Great ascended the Macedonian throne at age 20 and died ... in a meeting of the generals and cavalry class, but the army rank and file — infantry — rejected both because the ...

Alexander the Great of Macedon led an army of 40,000 warriors against the Persian Empire in a victory now known as Battle of the Granicus, but historians hadn’t been able to locate the site of ...

RESEARCHERS in Turkey have identified the long-lost site of the legendary battle where Alexander the Great secured his first monumental victory 2,400 years ago. This ancient battlefield, hidden ...