Alexander the Great's Entire Life, Mapped

Alexander the Great conquered half the known world before 30 and never lost a battle - then died at 32, and things got stranger after that. His whole life, mapped stop by stop: Bucephalus, Aristotle, Diogenes, the Gordian Knot, Tyre's road through the sea, Gaugamela, India, the army that refused to go on, and the Roman emperor who broke his nose. Chapters 0:00 The Boy 1:10 The King 1:52 Into Persia 3:04 Pharaoh 3:55 King of Kings 4:54 The Edge of the World 6:41 The Way Back 7:41 The End 8:20 Legacy Distances and routes are approximate; some sites (the Sogdian Rock, the place of Darius's death) are uncertain. Sources Arrian, Anabasis of Alexander Plutarch, Life of Alexander Quintus Curtius Rufus, Histories of Alexander the Great Diodorus Siculus, Library of History, book 17 Cassius Dio, Roman History 51.16 (Augustus and the tomb) Coastlines: Natural Earth (public domain) Music and sound effects: Epidemic Sound. Thumbnail image: Alexander Mosaic (detail of Alexander the Great), c. 100 BC, Roman copy of a Hellenistic painting, from the House of the Faun, Pompeii; now National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.