Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty Persian Empire.
Related: 2nd-century Alexander the Great statue with lion's-mane hairstyle unearthed in Turkey It was still there around 300 years later, when the first Roman emperor, Augustus (reigned 27 B.C. to ...