Ancient Greece witnessed numerous significant battles that played pivotal roles in shaping its history and Western civilization.

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...

By Euripides Evriviades Ever since childhood, my imagination was seared by the exploits of Alexander the Great. Like many, I ...

At the archaeological site of Vergina, the ancient Aigai and first capital of Macedonia, archaeologists unearthed several ...

Columbia Professor Richard A. Billows, in his book Before and After Alexander, sheds light on unseen aspects of the legendary conqueror’s life, revealing fresh insights into his romances and the theft ...

The Achaemenid Persian Empire, at its greatest territorial extent under Darius I (r. 522 486 BCE), held sway over territory stretching from the Indus River Valley to southeastern Europe and from the ...

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600m: Sacre Couer (N. Darshan) 43.5. Niggled. Magical Bay (Jitendra Singh) 44.5. Knotty One (N. Darshan) 44. Shaped well. Queens Cliff (Jitendra Singh) 45.5. 600m ...

He brashly called himself 'king of the four corners of the world' and is hailed for having liberated the Jews from the cruel Babylonians. Cyrus the Great, who founded the Persian Empire in the sixth ...

Crowds packed central Tehran on Friday for the unveiling of a statue celebrating an ancient Persian victory over foreign ...

An innovative study, based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, has re-evaluated what made a road “royal” in the ancient Achaemenid Empire. The research, focused on the route between ...