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

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

Nehemiah was the Emperor Cyrus’ cup-bearer and conveyed to Cyrus his distress at the enslavement of the Jewish people by the ...

Originating around 800 BCE with the polis city-state system, Greece is the birthplace of Athens, Sparta, philosophy, democracy, and the Olympic Games. Dating back to around 1500 BCE during the Vedic ...

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

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

Iran is a country with a rich heritage, where every street has traces of ancient civilisations, and the architecture ...

In a world growing ever more complex, recent events have cast a spotlight on a sobering reality no one can ignore .

My message to the international community is that our silence and complicity on the situation in Gaza shames us all. It is almost like the behaviour of the military junta in Burma” (Desmond Tutu) ..

I think he’d have amazing stories to tell. Next week, we continue our conversation with Filippo Pedron, shifting from language to labor in the Achaemenid Empire, where he shares how his linguistic ...

Like most fed only on Pakistani textbooks, the former minister of information Fawad Chaudhry is woefully ignorant about the ...

Achaemenid history. VI, Asia Minor and Egypt : old cultures in a new empire : proceedings of the Groningen 1988 Achaemenid History Workshop / edited by Heleen Sancisi-Weerdenburg & Amélie Kuhrt ...