Xerxes (Khshayarsha in Persian transcription) was by no means the least of them. All the same, it would be fair to say that since the 1950s there has been a twofold revolution in ancient Persian ...

McFarlane Toys is back with a new Movie Manics statue, as this gets colossal with a monstrous remake. Peter Jackson's King Kong from 2005 is back as McFarlane brings back Kong with a brand new ...

They follow Zoroastrianism, the faith of the Persian kings Xerxes and Darius. The journey begins from the ... The pillar originally supported a statue of Garuda. Credit: Public Domain file: Rawlinson, ...

Nicolas was appointed Bishop of Luçon, another sister married the king’s secretary, and a niece, Perrette, wed Jean de Village. The latter was granted the position of galley patron, meaning he ...

A statue of King George V was also defaced in the capital, Canberra, on Sunday. Graffiti in red paint on the statue read, “The colony is falling.” Australia’s national day on January 26 is a day of ...

In Canberra, “The colony is falling” was found graffitied on a statue of King George V. Earlier this week, a statue of Captain James Cook in Sydney was found covered in red paint, with its ...

A few protesters took that antipathy a step further — by vandalizing statues of British settlers and an English king. The damage done in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra was a fresh sign that ...

Alexander’s kingship of Asia, as he proclaimed in 331 BC, did not mean, as is often thought, the Persian kingship, but was a unique creation of Alexander himself, according to academic Ernst ...

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Over 2,200 black floating iron capsules, weighing five tonnes each, have been used to construct the bridges for facilitating the movement of vehicles, pilgrims, sadhus and workers at the world's ...

The pontoon bridges were first used in 480 BC by Persian king Xerxes I during his invasion of Greece. These bridges were also used by the Zhou dynasty in China during the 11th century BC.