History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from antiquity, Alexander the Great. Of all the lands in the Eastern Mediterranean, it ...

Alexander the Great, a Macedonian king, built one of history's largest empires. He led his army across Asia and Egypt. Alexander founded cities and encouraged the blending of cultures. His campaigns ...

Egypt goes from glory to disaster in this lively history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egyptologist Wilkinson (Ramesses the Great) begins with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BCE and ...

Stanley, Daniel J., Carlson, R. W., Van Beek, Gus W., Jorstad, Thomas F., and Landau, E. A. 2007. "Alexandria, Egypt, before Alexander the Great: A multidisciplinary ...

The remains of Alexander the Great may lie under the streets of Alexandria, they may have been "eaten by a shark," or they may be somewhere else entirely. But one thing is certain: Archaeologists ...