One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

But Cartledge also says Alexander was a great propagandist. Two thousand years on ... You can’t understand Alexander if you ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

In 1010 CE, Persian poet Firdawsi wrote “Shahnamah ... Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great” — agrees that Darius I was a formidable ruler, who tolerated other religions.

But Cartledge also says Alexander was a great propagandist ... t understand Alexander if you don’t understand Darius, the last king of the Persian Empire.” Not for nothing is one of his ...

The Mediterranean Sea used to be filled with pirates who terrorized not only Ancient Greece but Rome as well. Long before the ...

Now, researchers are conducting a long, intensive analysis Sonja Anderson Daily Correspondent A famous Roman mosaic depicting Alexander the Great ... as the Persian king Darius III.

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A Roman mosaic in Alter do Chão, Portugal, depicts Alexander the Great's clash with King Porus—one of only three such mosaics ...

Americans from coast to coast will have the opportunity to witness the first “Blood Moon” visible anywhere in the world in ...