Why was the country of Iran formerly called Persia? What has this got to do with the conquests of ancient Middle Eastern ...

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 ...

Iran, one of the world’s oldest and most influential civilizations, has a rich history that spans over 5,000 years. Located ...

The Babylonian Exile, a traumatic and critical period in Jewish history, saw thousands of Jews deported to Babylon following the conquest of Judah by the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar II.During their ...

The story of recorded history is that of nations and empires rising, declining and falling. ... Babylonian Empire, Medo-Persian Empire, Greek Empire, followed by the mighty dominating Roman Empire.

History's first superpower sprang from ancient Iran. Under the leadership of Cyrus the Great, Persia ruled the world's first true empire, centered in Iran and stretching from Europe to Egypt to India.

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 ...

In two new books, the historians Adrian Goldsworthy and Tom Holland portray an empire that knew how to hold back from a fight and make room for upstarts. Someone’s husband trying on a Roman ...