Since his death in 323 BCE, 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 .

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire. He made it as far as the Indus River in modern ...

Egypt, one of the oldest countries in Africa, calls itself Masr in Arabic, thought to come from the word “Mizraim”, a ...

Secret Maps at The British Library. 10 October - 18 January, £tbc. JMW Turner , The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire exhibited 1817. Photo courtesy Tate Two of Britain's greatest landscape ...

We’d just spent 2 weeks traveling through Spain before taking a ridiculously cheap flight from Seville to Pisa for 9 euros ...

Download Europa Universalis IV for free on VPesports via Steam! The full game guide will help you master all the nuances and ...

Melbourne restaurateur Chris Lucas to open Grill Americano at Qantas House, home to the national carrier for a quarter of a ...

For more than 500 years, people have marveled at the Torre dell’Orologio, the magnificent clock tower on Piazza San Marco in ...

The Venice entry fee is back — and this time it’s double the trouble. Or rather, it will be for last-minute daytrippers to the city, who’ll see the entrance fee double from last year’s 5 ...