He conquered land across three continents, ruled over states from Egypt to modern-day India, and never lost a battle – before ...

The Empire of Japan was one of the largest maritime empires in history ... The Achaemenid Empire, also known as the First Persian Empire, spanned 3.08 million square miles at its peak in 480 ...

Iran, once the heart of the great Persian Empire, sits in southwestern Asia, bordered to its east by Afghanistan and to its west by Iraq. Iran has one of the largest economies in the Middle East ...

It dominates the entire landscape. It is the tomb of Cyrus, the first Persian emperor, the man who two and a half thousand years ago built the largest empire that the world had then seen ...

The successors of Cyrus II continued their conquests as far as the Danube. The Persian Empire was the largest of the preceding empires in the Middle East and required extensive road and postal ...

He then set out to conquer the massive Persian Empire. Against overwhelming odds, he led his army to victories across the Persian territories of Asia Minor, Syria and Egypt without suffering a ...

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 ...