Although the Persians had been defeated at Salamis and Xerxes had retreated ... The verses read as follows: That Greek captain named Pausanias, since he defeated the Medes with great toil and effort, ...

Archaeologists discovered findings that may prove the biblical battle in which King Josiah met his end was indeed a ...

This is because Mordechai and Esther had to write the Megillah under the scrutiny of the antisemitic censures of Persia and Medes – for the Megillat Esther was included in its entirety in the ...

Archaeologists have made a groundbreaking discovery that appears to confirm the biblical account of King Josiah's death at ...

The largest temple of Ancient Greece was at the mercy of the masked men who caused riots after the peaceful gatherings for ...

We know from Cuyler Young’s ‘Early History of the Medes’ as well as ‘The Cambridge ... we see an invasion of the sub-continent by the Persian Empire ruler Cyrus the Great, who marched ...

At the age of just 7, Alexander welcomed the Persian envoys when Philip was away ... At that time, the Medes, a Thracian tribe, took the opportunity to revolt against Macedonian rule.

Nowruz, meaning ‘new day’ in Persian, falls on the first day of the Persian calendar (around the same time as the Spring Equinox), and observes the end of darkness and the rebirth of nature.