He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

From the gigantic Persian empire, to the expansive British Empire, which dominated most of the world during the middle and the industrial ages, lets take a look at a some of the largest and the ...

Iran, once the heart of the great Persian Empire, sits in southwestern Asia, bordered to its east by Afghanistan and to its west by Iraq. Iran has one of the largest economies in the Middle East ...

It dominates the entire landscape. It is the tomb of Cyrus, the first Persian emperor, the man who two and a half thousand years ago built the largest empire that the world had then seen ...

He then set out to conquer the massive Persian Empire. Against overwhelming odds, he led his army to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt without suffering a ...

The successors of Cyrus II continued their conquests as far as the Danube. The Persian Empire was the largest of the preceding empires in the Middle East and required extensive road and postal ...