Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander, politician, scholar and explorer, Alexander led his army a further 11,000 miles, founding over 70 cities and creating an empire that ...

The Battle of Gaugamela, which took place on Oct. 1, 331 BC, is known for Alexander the Great's conquest of Darius III’s ...

Once part of the Achaemenid Empire, Sogdiana and Bactria had only ever been loosely governed. The arrival of Alexander the ...

Alexander was aged only 32 when he died of a fever in Babylon in June 323 BC. Genghis Khan is most famed for his wildly destructive tendencies against his enemies, but he was also a great military ...

I'm starting this week just over two thousand years ago, with the great ... empire on earth, sprawling from Egypt across the Middle East and central Asia to India and almost to China. The young ...

with Alexander the Great later expanding on the concept by imprinting his face on coins that flooded his empire. Augustus of Rome, forty years before Christ, fabricated the first political lie by ...

follows the invasion of India by Alexander the Great and ends with the birth of the first great Indian empire. The theme of the episode is the power of ideas in Indian history, and among the ...

JavaScript must be enabled in order for you to use the interactive campus map. However, it seems JavaScript is either disabled or not supported by your browser. To ...

The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were still in existence in 1914, and the reach of the Russian Empire extended east into what is now Finland, Belarus and Ukraine. The maps also cover the ...

The Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires were still in existence in 1914, and the reach of the Russian Empire extended east into what is now Finland, Belarus and Ukraine. The maps also cover the ...

first came to Maukallacta in the early 1980s to uncover the origins of the Inca Empire. At the time most historians and archaeologists believed that a brilliant, young Andean Alexander the Great ...

Set in Macedonia in 340 BC, the story of the teenage years of Alexander the Great as he struggles to prove himself as a man whilst simultaneoulsy making the most of his childhood.