The history of Persian rugs spans over 2,500 years to the Achaemenid Empire, with the Pazyryk carpet (5th century BCE) ...

One of the few virtues of the recent Netflix series on Alexander the Great was the prominent role given to his principal ...

The city of Iskenderun, also known as Alexandretta, in todays Turkey, was originally founded by Alexander the Great.

Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested in the Persian Empire, he says — meaning that even from antiquity, it was effectively erased from history. “When I speak with colleagues, especially from the ...

BC, the Near East was dominated by three powerful kingdoms: the Median Empire of Astyages, the Neo-Babylonian Empire of ...

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and so the Persian Empire is the first great 'road' empire of history. In front of me now [in the British Museum] is a chariot made of solid gold and pulled by four golden horses. It's easy to ...

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Greek and Roman authors weren’t interested in the Persian Empire, he says — meaning that even from antiquity, it was effectively erased from history. “When I speak with colleagues ...

and so the Persian Empire is the first great 'road' empire of history. In front of me now [in the British Museum] is a chariot made of solid gold and pulled by four golden horses. It's easy to ...