Nearchus Born c. 360 B.C., Crete Died 312 B.C. By the sixth century B.C., Persia had become the largest and strongest empire in the known world, presiding over Egypt and all of western Asia. Persian ruler Darius I (reigned 521–486 B.C.) decided to...

360 B.C.-312 B.C. Greek Military Commander Acommander under Alexander the Great, Nearchus served as admiral over a fleet that sailed from the coast of the Indian subcontinent to the Euphrates river in distant Mesopotamia. In so doing, he proved that a...

In 325 B.C. the Greek military commander Nearchus undertook a naval expedition from the mouth of the Indus River in what is now Pakistan to that of the Euphrates River in Mesopotamia, or modern Iraq. His voyage served a number of purposes, not least...

Nearchus (or Nearchos) (c. 360 - 300 BC) was one of the officers,Navarch in the army of Alexander the Great. His celebrated voyage from India to Susa after Alexander's expedition in India is preserved in Arrian's account, the Indica. A native of Crete,...