"He founded what we call the Achaemenid Empire, which is really the empire during which time we have the story of Purim.

A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.

The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...

TEHRAN - Recent heavy rainfall in Fars province led to the destruction of parts of historical houses in Shiraz, the ...

Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the third millennium BC, Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true ...