The history of Persian rugs spans over 2,500 years to the Achaemenid Empire, with the Pazyryk carpet (5th century BCE) ...

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

TEHRAN - Nestled in the rugged landscapes of Kermanshah province in western Iran, Dokkan-e Daud (English: David's Store) is ...

Originally constructed to house the Roman Emperor Valerian after his capture by Shapur I, the structure played a crucial role in the Sassanid Empire’s ... the influence of Achaemenid and Parthian ...

On a late-summer day in 1856, a letter carrier stepped from a mail coach in front of a three-story townhouse in Mayfair, in ...

It was one of the key moments of the Greco-Persian Wars because, along with the battles of Salamis and Plataea, it saved Greece from an invasion by the Achaemenid Empire. However, few people know that ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

Essentially a novel based on his life, it was translated into languages including Arabic and Persian — “every language in the world,” according to Pierre Briant, professor emeritus at the Collège de ...

“If you speak of conquests, you have to speak about the Achaemenid Empire. The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier, so when Alexander came to conquer the Middle East he had to ...

Xerxes took an Achaemenid Empire on the precipice of disaster and led it to glory. At first, this was chiefly achieved on the battlefield before defeat in Europe had him turn inwards to developing ...