In July 2018, archaeologists in Alexandria, Egypt, cracked open a colossal 27-tonne black granite sarcophagus at an under-construction site. This huge grave had puzzled archaeologists for weeks.

Alexander the Great in battle on his horse, Bucephalas © Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, ...

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 ...

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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 ...

One October morning in 336 B.C., the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with honored guests. They had come from across Greece and the Balkans to attend ...

Today, Alexander the Great is widely considered antiquity’s preeminent military commander. As it turns out, his battleground fame was so far flung that, even 500 years after his death, Alexander was ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it ...

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 ...