“This didn’t mean the local culture disappeared — quite ... but a pre-existing empire. “He conquered the Persian empire and its frontiers — it was his main goal,” says Briant.

The story of this ancient international heist reveals much about the ancient economies of both ancient Rome and China.

the Maseeh chair in Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of "Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persian in Longue Dureé" (Mazda Publishers ...

often these teams were comprised of peoples who had been subsumed into the Persian Empire. Laborers from Phoenicia, the skilled maritime culture from what is now Lebanon, stood out for their ...

During excavation in the ancient Greek city of Notion, located in present-day Türkiye, archaeologists recently made an astonishing discovery. While examining the courtyard of a home dating back ...

Alexander succeeded in uniting Greece and spreading its culture and language across ... of Alexander’s rule when he conquered the Persian Empire. The ancient city of Merv, now ruined, was ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from ...

Feasting is a long-standing tradition in Persian culture, with its history dating ... It specifically referred to the heartland of the Persian Empire, particularly during the Achaemenid period ...

Each year, on the 10th of Ordibehesht in the Iranian calendar, Iran observes Persian Gulf National Day — a moment to ... 1622 victory in which the combined forces of Iran’s Safavid Empire and the ...