Alexander, the brilliant young Macedonian king remembered as “the Great,” has frequently been ... story in time for the infamous burning of Persepolis, jewel of the Persian Achaemenid Empire.

Thousands of clay tablets found in Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, are finally being translated — and they show his importance, he says. Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great ...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the ... The Persian Empire's capital, Persepolis, which Alexander's forces captured and razed, "would ...

Following extensive technical studies, the Persepolis World Heritage Site announced that a protection and restoration project for the historic inscription of Darius the Great will begin this week.

made him great. Her prose is bracing and her descriptive powers rise admirably to the task of portraying the world in which Alexander operated. Fresh from razing the Persian capital of Persepolis ...

But Cartledge also says Alexander was a great propagandist ... Thousands of clay tablets found in Persepolis, in modern-day Iran, are finally being translated — and they show his importance ...