Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

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

In 480 B.C.E., King Leonidas of Sparta led 7,000 men against an estimated 300,000 Persian soldiers at the Battle of Thermopylae — and almost won. The Greeks successfully used their home terrain ...

In 1010 CE, Persian poet Firdawsi wrote “Shahnamah,” the “Book of Kings,” which portrayed Alexander as Sikander, a Persian, and half-brother to Dara, or Darius. In this, Alexander ...