Mr. Wilkinson contends that the Ptolemaic period is betwixt and between — “too late for Egyptologists, too early for Roman historians.” He comes, though, to champion this time as “vibrant and ...

Explore Antiochus III's campaigns, from battling revolts in Media and Persia to his epic conquests during the Fourth Syrian ...

In June 323 BCE, in the palace of King Nebuchadnezzar II in Babylon, the most powerful man in the world died. Just 13 days earlier, Alexander the Great —the greatest conqueror the world had seen ...

Alexander the Great was the king of the ancient Greek kingdom of Macedon, succeeding his father, Philip II, taking the throne in 336BCE at the age of 20. By the time he was 30, he had built one of ...