History Hit's Tristan Hughes travels to Egypt to explore its extraordinary links to one of the most famous names from ...

The Ptolemaic Dynasty, established by the Macedonian Greek general Ptolemy I Soter, ruled Egypt for almost three centuries.

When Alexander the Great entered Egypt, he was not met with resistance but with acceptance and opportunity. The region, weary of previous rulers, welcomed him as a liberator. But Alexander did not ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere, conquering land across three continents and ...

Alexander the Great in battle on his horse, Bucephalas © Alexander III of Macedon, better known as Alexander the Great, ...

Egypt goes from glory to disaster in this lively history of the Ptolemaic Dynasty. Egyptologist Wilkinson (Ramesses the Great) begins with Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 BCE and ...

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists on Thursday dashed local hopes that a newly discovered ancient sarcophagus might contain the remains of Alexander the Great, finding instead the ...

Stanley, Daniel J., Carlson, R. W., Van Beek, Gus W., Jorstad, Thomas F., and Landau, E. A. 2007. "Alexandria, Egypt, before Alexander the Great: A multidisciplinary ...