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 ...

The young conqueror fell suddenly and fatally ill at an all-night feast. Now, a Stanford historian has found a potential ...

Secondly, and this is overlooked with nauseating regularity by those with little or no military critical thinking. It ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

Ottoman imperium eventually ended in ignominy, with defeat in World War I and the Armenian Genocide – an appalling ...

Speaking as a former aspiring classics major, I found Hankins’s approach more than a little refreshing and, dare I say, cathartic.

Iranians have never been themselves since they ceased to be Persians, but it's never too late to reverse history. Now is the ...

There, every sixth U.S. fatality perished by the efforts of Iran. President Donald Trump alluded to this history in ...