Deep in the deserts of Iraq, the lost city of Charax Spasinou has finally been found. It seems it had been hiding under the ...

Experts have identified a site in northwest Turkey as that of the Battle of the Granicus, a major victory for Alexander the Great. The defeat of the Persians in 334 B.C. at that location provided a ...

Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of Charax Spasinou, one of thelast cities founded by Alexander the Great, after it had been buried beneath the desert for over 1,200 years. Thanks to drones ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ruling over states from Egypt to modern-day India — over 2,000 ...

In a misty stretch of northern Greek countryside, wedged between forested hills and a coastal plain west of Thessaloniki, is the modern village of Vergina. But Angeliki Kottaridi, who has spent a ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from modern Albania ...

Our knowledge of the ancient world could be rewritten following a shock new claim about Alexander the Great. The Egyptian city of Alexandria – Alexander's most famous relic – was in fact not founded ...