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President Trump’s trip to the Middle East next week — visiting Saudi Arabia, Qatar and United Arab Emirates — will be focused ...

From Trump's flirtation with renaming the Persian Gulf to the reignited conflict in Kashmir, these are some of the territorial disputes around the world.

Founded by Cyrus the Great, the Persian Empire, although patriarchal ... Within this empire, which lasted two centuries and was the largest in the world up to that time, one woman stands out ...

New Class 7 social science textbook is latest in NCERT’s revamped series under NEP 2020 and new NCF, which stresses content ...

The Ancient Greek mosaics of Zeugma in Turkey are a true archaeological treasure that can be admired at the Zeugma Mosaic ...

After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

At Aigai, it is Philip who looms largest among the ruins ... This is where Alexander launched his famous invasion of the Persian Empire. Without denying Alexander’s greatness, it’s important ...

By comparison, Spain, the next largest water recycler ... A dog buried in Ashkelon at the time of the Persian Empire leaves modern-day researchers flummoxed. Photo courtesy of the Leon Levy Expedition ...

But there aren’t enough historical accounts to verify this. At the time, Cyrus’s Persian Empire was the largest in the world. His territory stretched through most of Southwest and Central Asia, from ...