On September 12, 490 BC, the Greeks achieved a monumental victory at the Battle of Marathon, defeating a Persian invasion ...

The glorious entrance of Alexander the Great in Babylon as conqueror and savior was the culmination of his achievements.

In September of the year 490 BC, just 42 km outside of Athens, an army of brave Greeks saved their city from the invading ...

THE President is in a very difficult situation in trying to stop the profuse bleeding and reverse the realities in government projects following his newly found “anti-corruption” zeal. Where most ...

Herodotus tended to put his political philosophies into the mouths of historical figures such as Miltiades. He condensed his ...

In the late 1800s archaeologists pinpointed the location of Taxila, one of the greatest religious and cultural sites on the ...

Assessing Persian kingship in the Near East: an introduction / Jason M. Silverman and Caroline Waerzeggers -- 1. THE END OF THE LYDIAN KINGDOM AND THE LYDIANS AFTER CROESUS / Eduard Rung -- 2. PERSIAN ...

In 329 BC, Alexander was on a roll. When he crossed the Hellespont back in 334 BC, he had been determined to put himself at the head of the Achaemenid Empire, and he was well on the way to doing so, ...

TEHRAN—A number of managers of Iraqi travel agencies visited the UNESCO World Heritage site of Bisotun and all the attractions and historical monuments of Bisotun complex during September 2-5.

From the rise of Cyrus the Great in the 6th century BCE to the vast dominion of Darius and Xerxes, the First Persian Empire—also known as the Achaemenid Empire—expanded to become the largest the ...

These gardens also played a religious role, offering a glimpse of what eternity might look like in the afterlife.