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Read Frank Holt’s article “Alexander in the East” as it originally appeared in Archaeology Odyssey, July/August 2001.—Ed. Berthold Werner’s image is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 Spurring his beloved horse Bucephalus into the fray, Alexander the Great...

SETH ROGEN, ZAC EFRON and ROSE BYRNE are joined by CHLOË GRACE MORETZ in Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising, the follow-up to 2014’s popular and original comedy. NICHOLAS STOLLER again directs in a film that follows what happens when the spirit of parenthood...

Seven chairman Kerry Stokes has apologised to the Greek Embassy after an incorrect statement during the Opening Ceremony of the Olympics describing King Philip II of Macedonia (Alexander the Great’s Father) as FYROM’s first Olympian champion. The error...

It has taken a slow-but-steady climb for The Wire to emerge as a cultural phenomenon, but the show that challenged every cops-and-robbers television trope has permeated just about every corner of our culture. In celebration, here are 23 facts that might...

Andrew Heisel’s Lexicon Valley article last year on single versus double quotation marks piqued the interest of Keith Houston, author of Shady Characters: The Secret Life of Punctuation, Symbols, and Other Typographical Marks. What follows is a condensed...