In the ancient city of Gordion in Turkey, archaeologists have unearthed an 8th-century B.C.E. tomb with possible ties to King ...

I first learned about the Gordian knot as a child. Whoever unties it would conquer Asia. Along came Alexander the Great. He took out his sword and sliced through it—cutting ...

Who was Gordias, the legendary father of rich King Midas? Legend connects him to the Gordian knot, famously cut by Alexander ...

Vergina, Greece is a small, unassuming town in modern times, but it played a crucial role in the ancient world as Aigai. Then ...

Sometimes there is nothing quite like decisive action. For years, Democrats and Republicans and the European Union negotiated ...

Greek legend tells how this ends: a knot so intricate no one could unravel it, countless failed attempts, and then—Alexander the Great.

“It really is a Gordian Knot,” said Yan, referring to the legend of Alexander The Great and the impossible-to-untie knot that he instead cut. “The solution is then who wields the sword.” ...

Alexander the Great, who famously decided that the impossibly complex original Gordian Knot could not be untied and cut the damned thing in half with his sword, would approve of the action behind ...

Alexander Hamilton, by then a New York lawyer who still played the president’s éminence grise, wanted Washington to exit as he entered: a unifying figure optimistic about the “infant nation.” ...

President Trump, by Scaling Back the Federal Bureaucracy, Cuts the Gordian Knot Even the greatest conservative leader of recent decades, President Reagan, worked to create the conservative side of the ...

Piqued by the prophecy, a young – and not yet “Great” – Alexander, confronted the knot in the early days of his military campaign. Having assessed the complexity of the knot, Alexander is said to have ...