The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...

The Paris-based International Council of Museums had issued an emphatic warning after the first bomb strikes: There was a ...

Another longest-standing rivalries unfolded between the Roman Empire and the Persian powers, first the Parthians and ... Chile that aligned with Chile's struggle for independence. Over 300 years (1048 ...

Isfahan, one of Iran’s most historic cities, is home to one of the three nuclear facilities targeted by the United States ...

As tensions rise in the Middle East following Israel's attack on Iran, and the conflict that has followed, travel in the ...

Making of an empire As a bold young man, Chandragupta Maurya, the future king of the Mauryan Empire, allegedly offered some brash advice to Alexander the Great, who had crossed the Indus River ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

From Cyrus to Alexander : a history of the Persian Empire by Briant, Pierre Publication date 2002 Topics Achaemenid dynasty, 559-330 B.C, Iran -- History -- To 640 Publisher Winona Lake, IN : ...

The treasures of the Persian Empire Ian Worthington’s ‘By the Spear: Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire’ gives a detailed account of Alexander’s loot from ...

In the early 1950s, Iran had a liberal prime minister who promised to stop shipping the country's resource riches offshore, ...