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 ...

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 ...

His innovations, from the time he bought the franchise in 1979 until his death in 2013, turned his team into L.A.’s hottest ...

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

For centuries, the location of Alexander the Great’s tomb has remained one of the most baffling and captivating mysteries in ...

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.” ...

So, how can Walter afford all of this? Guggenheim Partners, the financial services firm that is now part of the TWG Global ...

In Part 1 of our series on the history of US-Iran relations, we explored the rising tensions in Tehran as Prime Minister ...