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 ...

Arab nations have pushed for a change to the geographic name of the body of water off the southern coast of Iran, while Iran has maintained its historic ties to the gulf under the Persian Empire.

So what corresponds to the continental shelf of the United States, which they call the Gulf of America, for us is still the Gulf of Mexico and for the whole world it will continue to be the Gulf ...

The name of the body of water has become an emotive issue for Iranians who embrace their country’s long history as the Persian Empire. A spat developed in 2017 during Trump’s first term when he used ...

Never before had women enjoyed as much freedom and authority as in the Persian Empire around 500 BC. Founded by Cyrus the Great, the Persian Empire, although patriarchal, was centuries ahead of ...

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Then, in 334 BCE, he led his army into Asia to fulfil Philip’s ambition of conquering the Persian Empire — the largest in the world at that time. Over a 10-year period, fighting across modern ...