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

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and ...

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 ...

In 334 BC he used this army to launch a invasion of the Persian Empire, winning a crucial victory at the River Granicus. Epic History.

Neil MacGregor continues his history of the world, told through individual objects at the British Museum. Today, the story of a great Persian king and a tiny 2500-year-old chariot. Show more Neil ...

The Persian empire was, by the 5th century BC, the largest empire the world had ever seen. It became the epicentre of political, cultural, social, and economic development, perhaps one of the most ...

From ancient Egypt to the Persian Empire, an ingenious method of catching the breeze kept people cool for millennia. Now, it could come to our aid once again.

At its peak under the reign of Darius the Great, the Persian Empire stretched from Greece to India. Briant notes in his book how tablets from Persepolis, the ceremonial capital of the empire, show ...