Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest ... teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels.

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

After the murder of his father, Philip of Macedon, Alexander led the armies of ... Four of his generals divided the empire between themselves. In the areas they ruled, Greek and local cultures ...

As Alexander the Great lay on his deathbed in 323 B.C., his generals reportedly asked to whom he left his empire. "To the strongest," Alexander said, according to historians. "And, of course, they ...

A hodgepodge of East and West, Mithridates’ Pontic Empire emerges as a compelling possibility of what Alexander's empire could've been.

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 ... the city off the map by having the ...

As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the ... than seven feet tall, is divided into three sections.

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.