5th century 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 ...
The Ancient Greek engineer Mandrocles of Samos is credited with creating the Pontoon Bridge, which spanned the Bosphorus ...
Machine generated contents note: 2.1. The Persians -- 2.1.1. Parsua and Parsumash -- 2.1.2. Kurash of Parsumash -- 2.2. The Indigenous Population of the Iranian Plateau: The Elamites -- 2.3. The ...