Traces of color preserved in the stone are changing how historians understand what was lost when Alexander burned Persepolis.
Amyntas of Macedonia, the first recorded Macedonian king, is linked to the assassination of Persian envoys in a tale of intrigue.
The 1850 discovery of King Ashurbanipal's vast library of cuneiform tablets at Nineveh illuminated fascinating records and ...
David Halimi grew up in Tehran and now runs rodeos, restaurants and a Western wear empire in Chico — while anchoring a Jewish ...
5th century BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from ...
Even if there is ever a secular regime there, the majority faith will remain Islam and chances of a grand revival of ...
Alexander the Great established himself as Emperor of Asia and urged his generals to marry Persian women in the Susa weddings ...
In 331 BC, the greatest general in history prepared for the Battle of Gaugamela, in which he defeated Persian king Darius III ...
Late antique legendary biography of Alexander the Great (c. AD 300), where history, myth, and imperial ideology merge around ...
Alexander the Great's life stands out as one of history's most extraordinary tales, a whirlwind of ambition and conquest that turned a young king from.