Despite the vast reach of the Ottoman Empire, from North Africa to Eastern Europe, one powerful neighbor remained unconquered: Persia. In this video, we explore the reasons why the Ottomans never ...

the Maseeh chair in Persian Studies and Culture at the University of California, Irvine, and the editor of "Excavating an Empire: Achaemenid Persian in Longue Dureé" (Mazda Publishers ...

“This didn’t mean the local culture disappeared — quite ... but a pre-existing empire. “He conquered the Persian empire and its frontiers — it was his main goal,” says Briant.

True Iranians have remained friends of the Jews through both belief and deed. A look at the history of Iran and the Jews.

often these teams were comprised of peoples who had been subsumed into the Persian Empire. Laborers from Phoenicia, the skilled maritime culture from what is now Lebanon, stood out for their ...

During excavation in the ancient Greek city of Notion, located in present-day Türkiye, archaeologists recently made an astonishing discovery. While examining the courtyard of a home dating back ...

Alexander succeeded in uniting Greece and spreading its culture and language across ... of Alexander’s rule when he conquered the Persian Empire. The ancient city of Merv, now ruined, was ...

Alexander of Macedon earned his epithet “Great”—awarded to him in antiquity and not, as one might think, only later—by conquering an empire of two million square miles, stretching from ...

At Persian restaurant Sadaf ... helping to establish Iranian restaurant culture in Southern California. Upon arriving in the U.S. from Iran in 1985 with a degree in economics he couldn’t ...

Each year, on the 10th of Ordibehesht in the Iranian calendar, Iran observes Persian Gulf National Day — a moment to ... 1622 victory in which the combined forces of Iran’s Safavid Empire and the ...