At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s ...

The maps of modern Iran which follow were prepared by the CIA and are available in electronic form from The Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection of The University of Texas at Austin Modern Iran: The ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.