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 ...

This track in Ford Field will feature the second right-handed first turn the series has seen so far, four 180 bowl turns, a ...

The Rialto, which became synonymous with Venice, only emerged as the city’s center 400 years later. The collapse of the Western Roman Empire in 476 left northern Italy contested, with ...

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