How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...
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Three Brothers-in-Law Dominated the Near East in the 6th Century BC, Until Cyrus the Great Changed History
BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...
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Battle of the Persian Gate: An Achaemenid Thermopylae, 330 BCE
The rich capitals of the Achaemenid Empire lay exposed to a foreign invader for the first time. Yet, there were those who ...
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The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the third millennium BC, Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true ...
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50 restoration projects for cultural heritage underway in Fars province
Fars’ deputy chief of cultural heritage has announced that 50 restoration projects are currently in progress across the ...
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The Finger of Og or Herod's Pillar? A Jerusalem archaeological mystery
According to Ezra I and II Chronicles 36:22, Persian king Cyrus the Great, ruler of the Achaemenid Empire, issued the Edict of Cyrus in 539 BCE, granting the Jews permission to rebuild their ...