In a world of shifting borders and fleeting regimes, one truth remains enduring: civilizations remember. Unlike nation-states ...

American foreign policy in West Asia is a textbook example of adolescent overreach: short attention spans, cyclical memory, a belief in shortcuts to regime change, and an almost allergic reaction to ...

AS tensions flare up between modern-day Iran and Israel — through drone warfare, cyberattacks and regional proxy clashes — ...

At Opis, Alexander the Great confronted a mutiny of his army, caused by simmering tensions between the Macedonians and ...

According to Greek mythology, Perseus was the ancestor of the Persians through descendants who went by the names Perses and ...

Secondly, and this is overlooked with nauseating regularity by those with little or no military critical thinking. It ...

Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

Ancient Iran was home to numerous exceptionally powerful kings throughout history. This was particularly so in the era of the ...

Who Was Nehemiah and His Story in the Bible? Nehemiah was from the tribe of Judah, an exile during the time of Persia. The Bible doesn’t mention his direct ancestry but mentions his father as Hacaliah ...

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown introduces the hero character, Sargon, who is a new entrant into Persia’s elite force of seven warriors – The Immortals. The immortals head to Mount Qaf to ...

Jews of rank or substance carted off into captivity in Babylon languished for 30 years until Persia’s king, the Great Cyrus, subdued Nebuchadnezzar’s Chaldean Empire. He freed the Jews, and some of ...