But despite periods of stable rule, Babylon would always fall to someone else. Given this pattern of constant conquest—Cyrus the Great in the sixth century B.C., and Alexander the Great two ...

Alexander the Great died in June 323 B.C. in Babylon, in what is now Iraq, at age 32. By that time, he had conquered an ...

Alexander would probably expand his Empire further if not for his sudden death in Babylon in 323 BC ... Julius Caesar paid his respects when he arrived in Alexandria following Pompey the Great ...