Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great” — agrees that Darius I ... a fourth-century BCE sarcophagus found in Lebanon, intricately carved with scenes from the life of the king.

Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from ... the eastern Mediterranean and includes what is today Israel and ...

One possibility is outside Egypt, and the discovery of a stone sarcophagus decorated with Alexander the Great imagery in Sidon, Lebanon, led to speculation that he might have been buried there.

on Lebanon's south coast, a colonnaded Roman road stretches down to the Mediterranean Sea. The Greeks settled here as early as the 5th century BCE, millennia before Alexander the Great invaded.

Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been compared to the mythic Greek hero Achilles. Both were beloved by their soldiers and almost invincible.

But Cartledge also says Alexander was a great propagandist ... a fourth-century BCE sarcophagus found in Lebanon, intricately carved with scenes from the life of the king. Myths and as yet ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the ... and includes what is today Israel and Lebanon as well as parts of Syria, Jordan and other nearby ...