B.C.E., King Philip II of Macedon gathered friends and family at his royal court in Aegae to celebrate the marriage of his daughter Cleopatra — when one of his own bodyguards suddenly stabbed him to ...

Was the Book of Daniel really written in the sixth century BC or was it a much later forgery from the Hellenistic Era?

The speech is taken from the 'Anabasis of Alexander' (Book VII Chapter X), written around 130 AD by the Roman/Greek historian Arrian. Arrian had access to eyewitness accounts which are now lost ...

Nearchus, the Navigator, bridged East and West with a daring voyage that reshaped ancient maritime strategy and trade routes.

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great ... “That’s why Greek spread all over the Middle East, and why the New Testament is written in Greek ...

In life, Alexander the Great stamped his mark across the known ... distant—despite decades of well-funded expeditions—a Greek academic, Antonis Bartsiokas, claims to have found a slender ...

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Born in 356 BCE at Pella in the ancient Greek kingdom on Macedon, Alexander the Great was the son of Philip II and Olympias. He succeeded his father Philip II to the throne at the age of 20 ...

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.