This is where Philip II of Macedon, having conquered nearly all ... Three bodyguards who were friends of Alexander gave chase, caught him and killed him on the spot. View of the theater of Aigai ...

For more than two millennia, the death and burial of Macedonian king Alexander the Great have been shrouded in mystery. He perished in 323 B.C.E. after suffering from a baffling illness for 12 days — ...