Cyrus’ exemplary leadership forged a patchwork of ethnicities into an empire that founded Persian rule in the Middle East, Professor Lynette Mitchell explains. Read the Transcript Cyrus the Great (or ...

the first king of the Persian Empire, considered the father of the Iranian people, from the sixth century BCE. Iranians also know that Arabs have tried many times to destroy Persian culture and ...

From there, he set about building a movie empire the country had never seen before. This is the historical spine of Hollywood on the Veld, the new book by author and journalist Ted Botha ...

It's also a line that, given the four sequels Ted Kotcheff's movie would go on to spawn, pretty accurately captures the Rambo franchise as a whole. Which is why now, six years after Rambo ...

As its definite-article title suggests, this fourth entry was intended as a grand finale – except, it’s the only real dud in the series, fumbling the bag to the extent that a fifth instalment ...

when Muscovy officially established relations with the Persian Empire, has at times been troubled. Iranian officials say that Moscow often talks tough but is wary of getting dragged into a major ...

the name “Persian Gulf” refers to the Persian Empire, which once controlled the territory corresponding to present-day Iran. From the 16th century onwards, the name was used in European ...

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For archaeologists and historians today, they represent a pivot in the ancient world’s shifting balance between empire and steppe ... the periphery of Greek and Persian consciousness, the ...