Due to the sheer size of the burial site - and its presumed cost of construction - it was first thought to be the resting place of Alexander the Great. However, while commenting on the findings of ...

The Battle of Thermopylae (480 BC) is one of the most famous last stands in history. However, the Spartans did not march to ...

150-52, 291. 31. Frank Holt, Alexander the Great and Bactria: The Formation of a Greek Frontier in Central Asia (Leiden: Brill, 1988). 32. Arrian 3.30.5 and 4.7.3-4 (openly disturbed by the barbarity ...

Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...

Has any ancient figure captivated the imagination of people over the centuries so much as Alexander the Great? In less than a decade he created an empire stretching across much of the Near East as far ...

Mesopotamia—“the land between two rivers”—gave birth to many of the world’s first great cities ... from scholars such as Diodorus Siculus, Quintus Curtius, Strabo, and Flavius Josephus ...

He acquired the surname 'Great' by the Roman period, and the Alexander Romance transmitted his legendary biography to every language of medieval Europe and the Middle East. As well as an adventurer ...

In this enlightening documentary, historian Sona Datta walks us through the most vibrant city in the Indus Valley that seduced Alexander the Great and shaped the modern world. Watch the full ...

Shai Gilgeous-Alexander commits relatively few turnovers for a first option, which has helped propel the Thunder to contender ...

On the precipice of taking another leap, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander has established himself as the face of the Oklahoma City ...

John J. Miller is joined by Rachel Kousser of the City University of New York to discuss The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian. John J. Miller is joined by Graham Hillard of the James C.