The showdown between the ancient Greek city states and the Achaemenid Empire of Persia was one of the pivotal moments of ...

Greek sources portrayed the Achaemenid kings, as indulgent and ruthless—all but Cyrus II. Why was this enemy ruler the only exception?

The Sassanid era is of very high importance in the history of Iran. Under the Sassanids, Persian architecture and the arts experienced a general renaissance. Architecture often took grandiose ...

Soon after the new administration arrived, things began to go missing from the White House website. They weren’t just the partisan policy platforms that typically disappear during a presidential ...

As Ed Sheeran releases his new song 'Azizam' we take a deep dive into the Persian lyrics, what the word means and how his wife Cherry Seaborn inspired the track. Following the release of his ...

American entrepreneur's $200M Russian food empire falls prey to political tensions, risking US business interests in the region. Secretary of State Marco Rubio weighs in on Glavprodukt's crisis as ...

I was born and raised in the Inland Empire (“IE” for short). I’ve compiled a list of my absolute favorite activities here so that you can plan your own adventures! The IE is home to family-friendly ...

The reason was simple. They had the once-thought invincible Persian Empire, the biggest and strongest empire that the world had seen thus far, against them. Thus, the battle of Mycale showed how ...

The weekly gold chart shows a strong intermediate bull trend that should extend into April. Typically, cycle peaks arrive around the time prices breach the upper boundary of the 10-week EMA ...

Appropriately, Warfare begins with a deafening assault, as Eric Prydz’s horny 2004 aerobics video for ‘Call On Me’ fills the screen, its sweaty, hormonal hardbodies lunging and lurching.

Add to that the public presence of diverse religions and it sounds like 2025, but this was life in the Ottoman Empire 200 years ago. Yet this seeming tolerance of non-Muslim faiths was in fact ...

Whilst they don’t get paths quite as wacky as that, the fact you can launch a Re-Reconquista as Iraq, try to reform the ancient Persian Empire with Zoroastrianism at its core for Iran, and just beg ...