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.

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.

Alexander the Great ruled the ancient kingdom of Macedon—centered on the northeastern part of the Greek peninsula—between 336 B.C. until his death in 323 B.C. at the age of 32.

A Greek scholar says he has identified a sacred tunic once worn by Alexander the Great and interred in a royal tomb more than 2,000 years ago. Found at Vergina, 300km north of Athens, the pieces ...

In a new telling of the Macedonian leader’s final years, Rachel Kousser shows what happened when dreams of conquest met reality. A 16th-century depiction of Alexander the Great commissioned for ...

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.