Greece is very far away from the heartland of early Buddhism in India and parts of Afghanistan and Pakistan. But thanks to Alexander the Great, Hellenistic and Buddhist cultures came into contact in ...

How many of us knew that the city of Gaza, the war-torn Palestinian enclave, has a Greek past that defined the history of the ...

During the Hellenistic era, an obscure city in western Asia Minor (modern Turkey) became one of the leading states of the 3rd ...

An intriguing Hellenistic statue and other signs of ... with a large pinch of salt," Cartledge, author of "Alexander the Great" (Overlook Press, 2004), told Live Science. Compounding the ...

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.

The Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape of Salerno and Avellino revealed in a Facebook post that, in ...

Born in 356 BCE in Pella, Alexander the Great became one of history's most ... widely spreading his name and the Hellenistic civilization. Historians offer various interpretations of Alexander's ...

Pella reached its zenith during the 4th century BCE under the rule of Philip II and his son Alexander the Great. Alexander ...

Alexander the Great died at age 32, but his cause of death is unclear. What killed him has been a long-standing source of debate.