Archaeologists believe they have found the site where Alexander the Great and his forces fought the Battle of Granicus against the Persian Empire in Çanakkale, Turkey.

In 334 BC, Alexander the Great led an army of 32,000 ... New sources indicate that the battle itself took place on the banks of the Granicus, now the Biga river, 100km east of Çanakkale in ...

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Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his ... Alexander died without having ever lost a battle, and while his empire soon splintered ...

The mosaic, buried during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in ... The site of Alexander the Great’s decisive Battle of Granicus, fought in 334 B.C., has been uncovered in northwest Turkey.

Many scholars who have studied the question have come up with theories about the location of Alexander the Great’s final resting place, which has made this one of the most hotly debated mysteries in a ...