a massive mosaic depicting Alexander the Great’s triumph over the Persian king Darius III at the epic Battle of Issus. For ...

A famous Roman mosaic depicting Alexander the Great is revealing new insights ... The mosaic probably depicts the Battle of Issus in 333 B.C.E., in which Alexander faced off against the Persian ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from ... city of Troy to the location of the Battle of Issus in modern-day Anatolia, where he first ...

An iconic Alexander the Great mosaic found at Pompeii got its ... The lone tree in the background hints that this is the Battle of Issus, which took place in 333 B.C. by what is now the Turkish ...

Using a non-invasive method of analysis, researchers have discovered that the pieces making up the famous Pompeii mosaic of Alexander ... in the Battle of Issus (333 BCE). Fun fact: Arab sources ...

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his first monumental victory on the road to becoming history’s ...

This mosaic, with monumental dimensions (583 x 325 cm) and composed of approximately 1.9 million tesserae, depicts the Battle of Issus, where Alexander the Great led the Macedonians to victory against ...

The Battle of the Granicus ... come to fruition. A mosaic originally from the House of the Faun in Pompeii—dating from around 100 B.C.—that depicts Alexander the Great. Archaeologists have ...