The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

Alexander the Great died at age 32, but his cause of death is unclear. What killed him has been a long-standing source of debate.

You’ve heard of Alexander the Great and all he’s accomplished, but little is mentioned of his mother. The woman who […] ...

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.

The mysterious tomb of Alexander the Great may not have been found yet, but do we at least know what it looked like?

Rachel Kousser's "Alexander at the End of the World" busts myths about the Macedonian king's last years and his campaign into Asia while illuminating his multiculturalism.

New archeological research has uncovered a piece of cloth with a "physical description [that] exactly fits" a tunic worn by the Macedonian conqueror Alexander the Great.

The presence of Alexander's tunic in his half-brother's tomb remains unexplained, though researchers speculate it might relate to Philip III's succession after Alexander's death.

During his father’s exceptional reign, Alexander had accrued all the skills and experience necessary to make his own mark upon history. He would come to be known as Alexander the Great.