A 3,000-year-old relief reveals how Assyrian divers used stealth tactics and flotation devices to wage silent river warfare.

Only one ancient account mentions the existence of ... The tempest dashed some 300 Persian ships against the cliffs of the peninsula and killed as many as 20,000 sailors. (Who was Darius I?) ...

when the Persian Gulf became part of global maritime trade across the ancient world. Magan was once the name for a region that now encompasses the UAE and Oman. Magan boats were large and strong ...

(Ancient Greeks' map of the night sky ... During a savage storm, they dove under the anchored Persian ships, cutting the ropes binding them to the anchors. The ships began to drift uncontrollably ...

And beneath those ancient ruins they uncovered a pot — overflowing with Persian gold coins. The hoard was seemingly left there by a soldier who — for some reason, probably a tragic one — was ...

These symbols are part of an entirely undeciphered script from a sophisticated ancient civilization ... with people across the Persian Gulf and the Middle East, their ships bringing copper ingots ...

created one of the ancient world's largest and most powerful empires that flourished from 550 B.C. to 330 B.C. At its height, the Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, stretched ...

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