He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map ... the ancient city of Troy to the location of the Battle of Issus in modern-day Anatolia ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... s progress from the ancient city of Troy to the location of the Battle of Issus in modern-day Anatolia, where he ...