Alexander the Great's vast empire was built upon his keen and continuously changing battle tactics, which depended on the enemy and terrain.

They are presented chronologically: Alexander and the Battle of Issus, Julius Caesar and the Battle of Alesia, Napoleon and the Battle of Austerlitz, Nelson and the Battle of Trafalgar, Ulysses S.

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

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

His conquests at war, such his victory at the Battle of Guagamela in northern Iraq, led him to be known as Alexander the Great. He died of a fever in Babylon in June 323BC. His tomb is still yet ...

Alexander didn’t earn much praise when it hit theaters in 2004. Directed by Oliver Stone (Platoon, Natural Born Killers) and starring big names like Colin Farrell, Angelina Jolie, Val Kilmer ...

Led by Alexander of Macedon it comprised battle hardened Macedonian soldiers ... Alexander ordered a retreat to great jubilation among his soldiers. The celebrations were premature.

The 937 A.D. Battle of Brunanburh was known simply as “the great battle” in its day, but its particulars were largely forgotten in the centuries that followed—including where it was fought.

During excavation of a well at a house in western Syria, a lucky discovery turned up an ancient mosaic — depicting the Greek ...