Such a larger-than-life character was a ripe role for a number of actors who have played him in the movies and on TV. On this Presidents Day, let's shout out a great big "Bully!" to these five men who ...

Video game adaptations don't have the best reputation, but these 20 went way too far.

One of the last cities ever founded by Alexander the Great, later dubbed Charax Spasinou, has finally been rediscovered.

Alexandria on the Tigris was Alexander the Great’s lost trade capital linking India, Mesopotamia and the Mediterranean.

From the Third Intermediate Period through the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman eras, ancient Egyptian private funerary monuments underwent marked architectural and ritual reconfigurations ...

Alexander the Great’s tomb was once one of the most visited sites in the ancient world. Roman emperors traveled to see it. Then it vanished. Wars, earthquakes, and rebuilding erased its location.

An ancient skyscraper considered the seventh wonder of the world crumbled to ruin centuries ago. Now an ambitious ...

Archaeologists in Southern Iraq have identified the site of ancient Alexandria, a large port city founded by Alexander the ...

Alexander the Great conquered the region around 329 B.C.E., leaving behind Greek and Macedonian settlers who intermarried ...

In a gripping "NBC News Investigates" special, anchor Andrea Mitchell reopens history's greatest unsolved mystery. After conquering the known world, Alexander the Great died under mysterious ...

Famed archaeologist Dr. Zahi Hawass believes he is close to discovering the long-lost tomb of Egyptian Queen Nefertiti. Hawass, an Egyptologist and the former Minister of Tourism and Antiquities, ...

Alexander, the Greats influence is alive in our time. Dimitri Filippidis, former President of the PanMacedonian Association USA, International journalist/radio personality refers to “Alexander the ...