The Persians, the ancient inhabitants of what is now Iran, created one of the ancient world's largest and most powerful empires that flourished from 550 B.C. to 330 B.C. At its height, the Persian ...

Profile of a conqueror Cyrus the Great, whose Persian Empire stretched from Turkey to India in the sixth century B.C., is pictured in a headdress in this 19th-century A.D. engraving.

The first great Achaemenid king, Cyrus II, was the son of a Persian king and a Median princess. In 550 B.C. , nine years after ascending to the Persian throne, Cyrus II conquered Media, unifying ...

TEHRAN - The Achaemenid Persian Empire stood as the most expansive empire of the ancient world, stretching from Anatolia and Egypt across Western Asia to Northern India and Central Asia. The empire’s ...

The Jewish community in Persia, known as Persian Jews or Yehudim Parsim, is one of the oldest and most enduring Jewish diasporas.Persian Jews trace their origins to the Babylonian Exile, with many ...