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

(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.

Thanks to new excavations and advanced technology, researchers now believe this city predates the Roman Empire by centuries ... the grandmother of Alexander the Great. Although Gradishte was ...

A tomb in Greece that was thought to hold Alexander the Great ... During this time the Roman Empire controlled the region. open image in gallery Diagram of the Great Tumulus of Vergina with ...

Image courtesy of Indian School/Private Collection/Dinodia/Bridgeman Images While history books are full of tales about the Roman ... Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according ... which ...

and researchers speculate that it may be linked to the Roman Empire. According to the museum, Alexander was a “great role model” for Roman leaders—and a particularly influential figure for ...

At long last, Turkish researchers have pinpointed the precise site of the Battle of Granicus, where Alexander the Great achieved his ... Achaemenid Persian Empire, clearing the way for eastward ...

A statue of Alexander the Great looms over the ... identity against just the Russian Empire. But the land now called North Macedonia has had to deal with the Roman Empire, of which it was part ...