He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

Sisygambis, Darius’ mother, came to love Alexander ... “If you speak of conquests, you have to speak about the Achaemenid Empire. The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier ...

is one of the sites where the might of the Achaemenid (Persian) empire can be seen. - John Moore/Getty Images Cartledge — author of “Alexander the Great” — agrees that Darius I was a ...