The Persian Empire . Iran is piling one brick on the other. As I’ve warned on Fox News and Charles Krauthammer described — eloquently — in The Washington Post, today’s Iranians, with their ...

Ancient and modern blended on the streets of Manhattan Sunday as thousands thronged to the annual Persian parade. Organizer Cyrus Assadi, one of the parade’s founders, said this year’s event ...

Origins of empire. When crowned king of Persia in 559 B.C., Cyrus II was little more than a tribal leader of the Parsua (Persian) people who lived in the south of present-day Iran. The latest ...

At the height of its reign, especially under Cyrus the Great (545-525 BC), the Persian Empire, modern-day Iran, extended as far as Egypt, and its military might was unassailable.

The ancient Persian capital of Persepolis, in a vast and arid plain 40 miles from Shiraz in southern Iran, is the greatest ancient site between the Holy Land and India.

Why the Ottoman Empire rose and fell. One of the greatest empires in history, the Ottomans reigned for more than 600 years before crumbling on the battlefields of World War I.