Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest ... history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander’s travels.

The 251,000 km² gulf in the Indian Ocean has been known as the Persian Gulf since at least the time of Alexander the Great in the 4th century BC. The name refers to the Achaemenid Empire ...

A map of western Antola. CREDIT: Notion Archaeological Project, University of Michigan. The city of Notion was incorporated into the Persian Empire together with the other Greek cities on Turkey ...

Researchers have finally decoded a Babylonian tablet thought to be the oldest map of the world ... was made during a time when the Babylonian Empire was a global leader in architecture, culture ...