A tomb that may have been built for a close friend of Alexander the Great may be aligned with the winter solstice.

The largest and most lavish tomb ever built in ancient Macedonia may have been designed to fill with sunlight on the winter ...

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the discovery could reveal the location of the place where Alexander the Great's paternal grandmother was born. Lyncestis was a small kingdom that flourished in North Macedonia, which was ...

Present-day North Macedonia, birthed by the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, has no real connection to Alexander the Great, who lived 2,000 years ago down the road in what is now Greece ...

"The potential for archaeology across North Macedonia … is highly significant ... including a coin with Alexander the Great's likeness, axes, game pieces, an oil lamp, even a small ceramic ...

When we talk about ancient Greek colonies, many think of the spots across Europe, such as Syracuse in Italy, but which was ...

After the murder of his father, Philip of Macedon, Alexander led the armies of Macedonia in a conquest ... of powerful empires and was the great prize of the Fertile Crescent.

The capital of ancient Macedonia, and Alexander’s birthplace ... Pella rivaled the grandeur of other great cities of the Hellenistic age (323–31 B.C.)—Alexandria in Egypt, and Pergamon ...

remembered primarily as the father of Alexander the Great. But Philip was a colossus in his own right, a brilliant military leader and politician who transformed Macedonia and built its first empire.