At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map ... modern-day Iran ...

By the time he died, aged just 32, he had redrawn the map of the northern hemisphere ... who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece) at the age of 20 to conquer the mighty ...

Since his death in 323 BCE, the world has been obsessed with Alexander the Great, who set out from his kingdom of Macedon (in modern-day Greece ... “redrew the map of the world” by force ...