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 ...

An iconic Alexander the Great mosaic found at Pompeii got its roughly 2 million pieces from quarries that extended far beyond Alexander's ancient kingdom, a new study finds. While Alexander's ...

Using a non-invasive method of analysis, researchers have discovered that the pieces making up the famous Pompeii mosaic of Alexander the Great came from a network of quarries across Europe.

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 ...

A famous Roman mosaic depicting Alexander the Great is revealing new insights into antiquity. As part of an ongoing restoration, researchers have learned that the artwork’s stones came from ...

A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law ...

A study reveals that the Kasta Tomb in Amphipolis, Greece, built by Alexander for Hephaestion, was solar-aligned with the ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.

He would come to be known as Alexander the Great. Alexander ... A large black-and-white mosaic decorates the floor of the House of Dionysus at Pella, capital of the Macedonian Empire.

Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau. He is particularly focused on archaeology and paleontology, although he has covered a wide variety of topics ...