By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set ...

At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map ... about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 ...

(CNN) — By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... we talk about Alexander but not Cyrus the Great, who founded the Achaemenid Empire in 550 BCE: racism.

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 .