The pivotal Persian ruler Darius I (550–486 B.C.) came to power at age 28 and quickly proved himself a great military leader and an even greater administrator. His ascension to king of the ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

A hiker in Israel’s Judean lowlands region recently discovered a 2,500-year-old pottery shard inscribed with the name of the Persian king Darius the Great, the father of king Ahasuerus.

The Israel Antiquities Authority said Friday that an ancient shard bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great that was announced this week to much fanfare was “not authentic.”. In ...

The Israel Antiquities Authority sent out a message on Friday morning that the shard with the name Darius the great on it is not authentic. The Aramaic inscription read “Year 24 of Darius ...

The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier, so when Alexander came to conquer the Middle East he had to conquer an organized empire. He was not the first.” ...