The War of the Heavenly Horses set the stage for an epic confrontation between the ancient Greeks of the Bactrian Kingdom and ...

Alexander the Great is one of the most extraordinary individuals in history. He became king of the fringe Greek kingdom of Macedonia in 336 BC at the age of just 20, and before his death twelve years ...

A hodgepodge of East and West, Mithridates’ Pontic Empire emerges as a compelling possibility of what Alexander's empire could've been.

Four of his generals divided the empire between themselves ... part of what is today Albania was included in the Macedonian conquests. Greek is still spoken by a minority of people in the area.

This was reflected in a new Greek writing style called ... in the perception of the Byzantine Empire by other states and peoples during the Macedonian Renaissance. For example, the coronation ...

The palace was the ceremonial hub for the Macedonian dynasty ... as the “First European.” Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested in the Persian Empire, he says — meaning that even ...

As a political move, Ptolemy V married Cleopatra I Syra (204 – 176 BC), a princess of the Seleucid Empire, a Greek state in West Asia, considered a division of the Macedonian Empire. As follows, ...

In Greece's Macedonia region ... one of history's greatest conquerors who toppled the Persian Empire and took Greek culture as far as Egypt and India in the fourth century BC.