The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

After Alexander the Great’s death, this Indian empire filled the vacuum. Backed by a strong family dynasty, the Mauryan Empire came to rule most of the Indian subcontinent.

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

A house divided against itself cannot stand”…..Abraham Lincoln Alexander the Great is regarded as one of the greatest and ...

Alexander encountered Kalanos, an Indian sage, whose wisdom and detachment challenged the conqueror's values. Kalanos joined ...

From Alexander the Great to Cleopatra, the lost tombs of such historical figures continue to fascinate the public and ...

Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

I remember once asking a great scholar of Rome, Ramsay MacMullen, if he could sum up the history of the Roman Empire in a very limited number of words. His sentence was, “Fewer have more.” ...

The city that was so Jewish that anti-Semites would call it “Jew York” just gave its Democrat primary choice to an outright ...

If I weren’t a person, I’d be a mushroom,’ the narrator thinks in Olga Tokarczuk’s House of Day, House of Night.* In Drive ...