Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched from the Balkans to India in just 13 years, when he was king of Macedonia. His conquest started in Persia, where he battled King Darius III's ...

Alexander the Great, having conquered Persia and defeated Darius III (not Darius II), adopted this royal attire. A frieze in Tomb II depicts a figure, likely Alexander, hunting in a purple sarapis ...

Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the ... who became the self-proclaimed Persian king after Darius III was killed — then history would ...