The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

Never before had women enjoyed as much freedom and authority as in the Persian Empire around 500 BC. Founded by Cyrus the Great, the Persian Empire, although patriarchal, was centuries ahead of ...

In 334 BC he used this army to launch a invasion of the Persian Empire, winning a crucial victory at the River Granicus. Musk is on a national debt crusade after slamming Trump’s spending bill ...

a small gold chariot from the Persian Empire of Cyrus; one of the contested marble sculptures from the Parthenon; a pair of bronze drinking flagons from Northern Europe; a small Mexican mask from ...

and the Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empires in modern-day Iraq were using forms of mail delivery before the Persian Empire was founded in the 6th Century BC, the Persians of Iran took the idea ...

From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. In the search for emissions-free cooling, the "wind catcher" could once again ...

Today he focuses on Cyrus, the first Persian emperor who created the largest empire the world had ever known. It stretched from Turkey to Pakistan and required a hugely sophisticated network of ...

The Achaemenid Persian Empire, which conquered Ionia in 546 BC, maintained Croesus’s gold-based monetary system, later introducing their own currency. The discovery at Notion provided insights ...

The Persian empire was, by the 5th century BC, the largest empire the world had ever seen. It became the epicentre of political, cultural, social, and economic development, perhaps one of the most ...