Alexander the Great's Companion cavarly were the elite mounted units of the ancient Macedonian army, entrusted to deliver devesating charges.

Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

much of Asia, extending his empire into India." The battle of 90,000 men saw Alexander's Macedonian army face the formidable Persian force for the first time. The Persian ruler Darius was warned ...

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 ...

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 ...

The capital of ancient Macedonia, and Alexander’s birthplace ... and above all to produce officers capable of commanding the army.” The nymphaeum in Mieza is thought to have been the site ...

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 ...