TEHRAN – The Persian translation of the book “Persians: The Age of the Great Kings” written by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones has been ...

He did so to protect his rear and to remove the threat of the Achaemenid navy. The ships were useless without their ports. In the meantime, Darius also attempted to negotiate a settlement with ...

Alexander the Great had dealt the Achaemenid Empire a series of devastating defeats at the Granicus (334 BCE), Issus (333 BCE), and Gaugamela (331 BCE). He had also captured vast swathes of ...

It was finally conquered by Alexander the Great during his invasion of Asia in the fourth century B.C. "The Achaemenid Empire was something drastically different from its predecessors," said ...

TEHRAN—An expert on qanat (an ancient underground water network) who has conducted extensive studies on the remaining qanats ...

The Achaemenid kings of Persia ruled between the sixth and fourth centuries B.C., but much of what we know about them today comes from Greek rather than Persian sources. The various Greek authors ...

A relief on the stairway includes depictions of delegates to the Achaemenid royal court (left), a multilingual inscription (center) saying that King Xerxes completed the building, and an image of ...

Mahmoud Salimi told reporters on Saturday that the discovered underground places belong to the Achaemenid era, which dates them back to 6th century BC. “So far, five of these underground places have ...

For the kings of the Achaemenid Empire, who ruled much of the ancient Near East from 550 to 330 B.C., there was little—apart from hunting lions and conquering the world—that rivaled a rhyton ...

AMMAN — Achaemenid Empire (559 BC – 330 BC) exercised political influence in the Levant but a few monuments remained in this part of the Middle East that were typical for Achaemenid architecture.