The incredible story of Alexander the Great and his conquest of the known world is brought to life with animated maps, images ...

The Persian empire pioneered women's rights. Other contemporary cultures made jokes about it and considered Persians unmanly.

When the ancient Greeks faced the Persians in the Battle of Artemisium, they set the tone for the Battle of Salamis.

The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

the decline of the Persian Empire began with his son, Cambyses II. From then on, according to the Greek sources at least, Persia would be ruled by cruel, impious despots. Xerxes I, the Achaemenid ...

largest and most culturally mixed oriental empire to date, one that from Herodotus’s time to our own day has loomed large, sometimes all too large, in Western consciousness. Xerxes (Khshayarsha in ...

and at getting inside the psyche of Darius and Xerxes. If anything, indeed, his enthusiasm for all things Persian leads him to dwell too long, for example, on the rise of the Persian Empire. He also, ...

their relationship has been deeply troubled at times since the 16th century when Muscovy officially established relations with the Persian Empire. Iranian officials say that Moscow often talks ...

Photograph: Bryan Smith Maybe now is the time to change, with a new deal that's pretty hard to pass up: for the first time ever, the Empire State Building—one of the most popular attractions ...

To Azadeh, smoothing out the bump in what Iranians would call the "Persian nose" she was born with proved a lucrative investment. Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranian women have been ...

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