By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern ... been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set ...

Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, is one of the sites where the might of the Achaemenid (Persian) empire can be seen. - John Moore/Getty Images Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great ...

the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire. He made it as far as the ...