During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

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 ...

It was most likely on August 7th of 480 BC that one of the most decisive battles ever recorded in Greek history, the Battle of Thermopylae, took place against the Persian Empire. This battle, which ...

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 ...

An American who fled the Soviet Union in the 1970s and built a $200 million canned-food empire is calling on President Donald Trump to help rescue his company after Russian authorities seized the ...

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 ...

Pappas Restaurants is preparing to acquire On The Border Mexican Grill & Cantina and help the Tex-Mex chain emerge from bankruptcy, according to people familiar with the matter. The Houston-based ...

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 ...

Despite these hurdles, Alexander’s military brilliance soon becomes apparent, making him the leader of a united Macedonian empire. As Alexander’s empire grows, the film also touches on the personal ...