(credit: Prof. Steven Fine) Work on the edifice was completed in the days of Persian king Darius I, ushering in a period of Jewish revival and returning the Israelites to the area of the kingdom ...

Alexander the Great established himself as Emperor of Asia and urged his generals to marry Persian women in the Susa weddings.

In 333 BCE, near the small Pinarus River along the modern-day borders of Turkey and Syria, a fierce battle took place between ...