“Our research, combined with a careful reading of ancient sources, has led us to pinpoint the exact location of the battle, ...
RESEARCHERS in Turkey have identified the long-lost site of the legendary battle where Alexander the Great secured his first monumental victory in 2,400 years ago. This ancient battlefield, hidden ...
New evidence suggests that the battlefield lies in northwestern Turkey. The battle marked the start of the 21-year-old ...
BCE, Alexander the Great won his first victory against the Persian Achaemenid Empire in his campaign to conquer Asia Minor. The Battle of Granicus was the first of thre ...
He killed 300 Chinese soldiers during this battle ... led by King Leonidas of Sparta, and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I over the course of three days, during the second Persian invasion of ...