The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...

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

My love affair with the Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) began during my first season excavating in Turkey in 1991, just after I graduated from college. I was digging at a site named Sardis ...

Four decades later, around 550 BC, the Achaemenid--or First Persian--Empire grew as a Median province, quickly defeating and subsuming the entire Median state and growing to become the largest empire ...

The Spartan army clash with the Thebans and general Epaminondas at the Leuctra battlefield signified the end of Sparta's ...

Founded by Darius the Great (522–486 B.C.), Persepolis flourished for two centuries until the Achaemenid empire fell when Alexander the Great’s armies sacked and burned the city in 330 B.C ...

TEHRAN - Drinking vessels of varied designs flourished throughout the Near East from the 1st millennium BCE well into the ...

There Isn’t Going to Be a Neo-Achaemenid Empire. Justin Logan responds to this Stratfor discussion of Iran, in which Robert Kaplan said: Iran’s influence in Iraq, Syria, ...