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A photorealistic artistic reconstruction of what the Roman emperor Alexander Severus (r. 222-235 CE) may have looked like. Based on contemporary and near contemporary descriptions, as well as archaeological evidence. Pictured alongside...

Silver tetradrachm from Thrace, reign of Lysimachus, 323-281 BCE. Head of Alexander as Ammon-Zeus. (Alpha Bank Numismatics Museum, Corfu)

Alexander conquered large areas of Europe, Asia, and North Africa. The coin types produced during his lifetime were still used after his death in 323 BCE. These had the same imagery and weight standard, with local symbols to distinguish the...

Copper alloy bust of Alexander wearing a nemes headdress. From Egypt, c. 150 BCE to 200 CE. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

A marble bust of Roman emperor Severus Alexander, r. 222-235 CE. (The Vatican Museums, Rome).

Alexander The Great and Roxane (1756) by Pietro Antonio Rotari (1707–1762). Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia.

The sculpture is considered to be Alexander at 18, made when he visited Athens after the battle of Chaeronea in 358 CE. Taken at the Acropolis Museum in Athens

The statue of Alexander the Great was erected in 1973 in Thessaloniki, Greece. It was symbolically built to look toward the east, while Mt. Olympus emerges in the background.

The meeting between Alexander of Macedon and King Aturpat (Atropates, in Greek) of Aturpatakan (Atropatena), painting by Job Mammadov. Azerbaijan National Museum, Baku, Azerbaijan.

Emperor Alexander I of Russia (r. 1801-1825), oil on canvas portrait by George Dawe, c. 1818-1825. British Royal Collection.