A major port in ancient Greece and occupied by Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC, Side today is a picturesque town of classic ruins and modern day resorts overlooking sandy white beaches.
Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.
Proudly tracing its history back to Rome's foundation on the morning of April 21st 753 BC, almost all of the Eastern Empire had belonged to the Alexander the Great's empire in 4 century BC.
A hunch led them to dig out some low mounds in the village of el-Behnesa, the site of the ancient Greek city of Oxyrhynchus, founded after Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in 332 BC.
It's an ancient wooden coffin, a sarcophagus that dates back to the late dynastic period of ancient Egypt, an era that spanned from 664 B.C. until Alexander the Great's campaign in 332 B.C.
When asked how a statue from distant Greece could have appeared in China, researchers explained that no doubt this was a result of Alexander the Great's influence.
Must it not be to that famous elephant, with jewelled tusks, and redolent with myrrh, which was led out of an Indian town to do honor to Alexander the Great?
After Alexander's death, his general Ptolemy took control of Egypt - and he liked the whole pharaonic treatment, so he pretty much kept the Ancient cults and rituals intact.
Possibly the best-known person to bear the name is Alexander the Great, the 4th century B.C. military strategist who was the king of Macedonia and conquered the Persian Empire.
Already holding Italy, France, Spain, Libya and the Balkans, Augustus now followed the example of Alexander the Great and seized the richest prize of them all-Egypt.