RESEARCHERS in Turkey have identified the long-lost site of the legendary battle where Alexander the Great secured his first ...

More than 2,300 years ago, one of Alexander the Great's most major battles took place at a site near the Biga River in ...

Alexander the Great, former King of Macedonia, is regarded as one of the greatest military leaders in history as he was ...

Elspeth R. M. Dusinberre proposes a fresh approach to understanding the Achaemenid Empire based on her study of the regional capital, Sardis. This study uses archaeological, artistic and textual ...

To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. The Achaemenid empire (ca. 550-330 B.C.) was the first world empire, founded by ...

The battle—which occurred in 334 B.C.—is considered "one of the most pivotal moments" in world history, one archaeologist ...

It was one of the richest and most populous regions of ancient Afghanistan under the Achaemenid Empire in the 6th Century BC. By 327BC, Alexander the Great had conquered the region and married a ...

Persepolis was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire, and dates back to 515 BC. It was declared by Unesco to be a World Heritage Site in 1979. Alamy Showing Darius the Great of the Achaemenid ...

Come Loremasters and learn of the war that turned just another Terran warlord into The Emperor - the Wars of Unification.