ROME AND PERSIA: The Seven Hundred Year Rivalry, by Adrian Goldsworthy PAX: War and Peace in Rome’s Golden Age, by Tom Holland The Roman Empire, an enormous multiethnic state that controlled ...

Roman humiliation peaked with Sassanian forces capturing Emperor Valerian at the Battle of Edessa in 260. Some Persian sources paint a dramatic picture of the humiliations he suffered: When Shapur ...

First, he defeated Rome's superpower rival, Persia, who attacked in 530 along the Roman-Persian border (in present day Syria). He then negotiated with Persia what is called the "Endless (a/k/a ...

In the 250s, the Persian Sasanian Empire set its sights on taking the Syrian city of Dura from Rome. The city, which backs up against the Euphrates River, was by this time a Roman military base ...

Roman defenders responded with ‘counter-mines ... they surely knew of this grim tactic.” Ironically, this Persian mine failed to bring the walls down, but it is clear that the Sasanians ...

But the market for eunuchs was evidently larger than just the Persian court. The Romans replicated the Greeks’ negative view of eunuchs. They are often portrayed in Roman texts as being in the ...

Some believe that the Roman-Persian War of 602–628 AD, including the 14 years of conquest of Judea/Palestine (modern Israel and the West Bank) and Egypt, and the Islamic conquest after the Battle of ...

The Egyptian-Spanish archaeological mission from Barcelona University uncovered 22 tombs from the Persian, Roman and Coptic periods during excavation work carried out at the Al-Bahnasa ...