Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern-day Turkey, the Middle East, and as far away as Afghanistan and Pakistan, Alexander routed Persian king Darius III, taking the empire for his own.

The Persian Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great (Darius I) of the Achaemenid Empire in the 5th century B.C. Darius built the road to ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and Achaemenes.

A 2,500-year-old potsherd found by visitors at Tel Lachish bears a brief inscription with the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, the father of King Ahasuerus—the biblical Achashverosh ...

The authority also said it would now review all of its procedures and policies. Darius I ruled the ancient Persian Achaemenid Empire from 522 BC until his death in 486 BC.