Mary Ann Bernal

Ancient Origins Alexandria, one of the greatest cities of the ancient world, was founded by Alexander the Great after his conquest of E...

Ancient Origins In June 323 BC, Alexander the Great died in Babylon aged 32, having conquered an empire stretching from modern Albania...

Ancient Origins The ancient city of Aegae in Greece, where the royal tombs are located, dates back to the 7th century BCE; it became Ma...

History Extra On our summer holidays in Greece at the end of August, I started getting excited messages from Greek friends about an ama...

Ancient Origins According to  NationalGeographic.com , archaeologists have discovered an interesting and unusual mosaic at the Huqoq a...

June 10 323 BC (or June 11) Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, died from either fever or excessive wine at the age of 32

May 22 334 BC – The Macedonian army of Alexander the Great defeated Darius III of Persia in the Battle of the Granicus.  

Ancient Origins New evidence has emerged that the massive underground tomb in Amphipolis, Greece, which was hailed last year as the arch...

October 1 331 BC, Alexander the Great defeated Persian emperor Darius III in the Battle of Arbela in Mesopotamia in one of the fiftee...

  Sept 16  335 BC Alexander the Great destroyed every building in Thebes, Egypt, except the temples and the house of the poet Pin...

August 7  322 BC Battle of Crannon: Macedonian forces of Antipater and Craterus and rebellious Greek forces led by the Athenians, was ...

  A mosaic of Alexander the Great from the House of the Faun, Pompeii, c. 80 B.C. Credit: National Archaeologic Museum, Naples, Italy ...

      Cleopatra confronts Julius Caesar in this 1866 painting. She had been driven from the palace in Alexandria by her brother, Pt...

June 10  323 BC (or June 11) Alexander the Great, Macedonian king, died from either fever or excessive wine at the age of 32. 1190...