Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in ...

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. He made it as far as the ...

Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, is one of the sites where the might of the Achaemenid (Persian) empire can be seen. - John Moore/Getty Images Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great ...