A study of Persia’s Royal Highway uncovers how the Achaemenids built roads to support the empire's royal machinery across ...
Researchers are reshaping what we know about Persia’s Royal Highway, the ancient backbone of the Achaemenid Empire. A new study from archaeologist Davide Salaris uses digital modelling to trace the ...
BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...
Researchers analyzing an extremely rare Egyptian alabastron inscribed with the name of Persian ruler Xerxes I have discovered traces of opium within the ancient vessel, suggesting that the narcotic ...
The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...
An innovative study, based on Geographic Information Systems (GIS) technology, has re-evaluated what made a road “royal” in ...