Alexander had a love-hate relationship with his father, King Philip II of Macedonia. While at times he appeared to be the ...

and his campaign in Asia would far exceed anything that Philip had imagined, it was his inheritance that made it possible. Without Philip’s war machine, there would have been no Alexander the Great.

Tomb thought to hold Alexander the Great’s father actually found to contain remains of young woman and six infants - Located ...

The archeological site of Mieza located in Macedonia is where Aristotle is believed to have tutored Alexander the Great.

However, it was not found in the tomb of Alexander the Great himself, but rather his half-brother, Philip III of Macedon. Academics say Philip III inherited the tunic after Alexander the Great's ...

Philip was already the most successful Macedonian ... He would come to be known as Alexander the Great. Alexander, who ruled from 336 to 323 B.C., is renowned for his 11-year campaign in Asia ...

Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great” — agrees that Darius I ... as well as the tomb of Philip and other Macedonian royals in a spectacular underground museum at Vergina (ancient ...

Bartsiokas has also researched the other items found in Tomb II and concluded that many of these also belonged to Alexander the Great—and not to his father, Philip II, as previous studies have ...

A statue of Alexander the Great looms over the central square. One of his father, Philip II of Macedon, towers above a nearby piazza atop an oversize pedestal. The city is also littered with ...