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 ...

Archaeologists in Turkey have just identified the site of Alexander the Great's first victory over the Persian Empire. This particular site had been unclear for 150 years. In 334 BC, Alexander the ...

Alexander was born in Pella ... He then set out to conquer the massive Persian Empire. Against overwhelming odds, he led his army to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set ...

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 .

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