W hen Mount Vesuvius buried Pompeii under a torrent of ash in A.D. 79, it also preserved one of the ancient world’s most ...

In 333 BCE, near the small Pinarus River along the modern-day borders of Turkey and Syria, a fierce battle took place between the forces of Alexander the Great ... the Alexander Mosaic was created ...

Alexander was born in Pella ... overlord of Asia Minor and pharaoh of Egypt became 'great king' of Persia at the age of 25. Over the next eight years, in his capacity as king, commander ...

The horse was called Bucephalus and the boy would, of course, grow up to be Alexander the Great. Alexander was brought up on stories of Homer’s heroes from the Trojan Wars. He was a true child ...