And this chariot was found in a very distant province, right on the far eastern edge of the empire, somewhere on the borders of modern Tajikistan and Afghanistan. It's part of a huge hoard of gold and ...

a Tehran-native who attributes this sophistication to the 5,000 year old history of the Persian Empire, now known as modern day Iran. “In America, food takes 10 minutes to make, but in Iran it’s in ...

By tracing the historical thread of this influence from Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Ghurid empires, Auer demonstrates how that legacy had an impact on the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim ...

That said, however, you do not conquer a vast empire without spilling an immense amount of blood, and there was no question that if you dared to stand up to the Persian kings then you would be ...

By tracing the historical thread of this influence from Samanid, Ghaznavid, and Ghurid empires, Auer demonstrates how that legacy had an impact on the establishment of Delhi as a capital of Muslim ...

Europe: In 510 BC, after a protracted struggle with its Etruscan kings, the nobility of ... the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally ...

The Battle of Salamis was one of the decisive battles of world history, in which the small city-states of ancient Greece joined forces to take on the mighty Persian Empire. After the defeat and death ...

A rare 2,500-year-old inscription, bearing the name of the Persian king Darius the Great ... the Persian Achaemenid Empire expanded, reaching its greatest extent under his son Ahasuerus, Xinhua ...