The "significant" events on the day of Alexander's birth - His first teachers - The years spent with Aristotle - How he tamed ...

Regardless of what killed Alexander, his body was mummified. Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general who was Alexander's close friend and bodyguard, was instrumental in moving the body. "His ...

Researchers have hotly debated where Alexander the Great is buried, with theories ranging from his homeland in Macedonia (now Greece) to Egypt. Like the Holy Grail or the Ark of the Covenant, the tomb ...

Many shoppers in Serbia, Bosnia, Montenegro and North Macedonia on Friday joined a trend that first started in Croatia - boycotting stores in protest against eye-watering price rises. Empty ...

In 1995, a car bomb rocked the capital of then newly-independent Macedonia. The target – the first democratically elected president, Kiro Gligorov, who narrowly survived. To this day ...

Regardless of what killed Alexander, his body was mummified. Ptolemy I Soter, a Macedonian Greek general who was Alexander's close friend and bodyguard, was instrumental in moving the body.