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.

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

What a Great find. 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.

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.

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.

A statue of Alexander the Great is pictured in Athens, Greece, on May 3, 2019. New research has identified a piece of cloth found in an ancient royal tomb as belonging to the Macedonian king.

It attests to Alexander’s popularity centuries after his death. One October morning in 336 B.C. , the small theater at Aigai, the ceremonial center of ancient Macedonia, began to fill with ...