Persians, Spartans, Leonidas, Xerxes, Ephialtes… Everyone has heard these names and can place them—more or less—in the 4th century BCE, when the Battle of Thermopylae took place. It was one of the key ...

TEHRAN - Before Valentine’s Day, there was Sepandarmazgan, an occasion dedicated to cherishing women and love.

TEHRAN - Nestled in the rugged landscapes of Kermanshah province in western Iran, Dokkan-e Daud (English: David's Store) is ...

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

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

Since humans discovered the power and capability that comes with numbers, we have lived in societies that enable us to … ...

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

Persians and other non-Greeks often employed ancient Greeks as mercenaries. Frieze depicts an Athenian mercenary peltast (left) supporting an Achaemenid knight of Hellespontine Phrygia (center) ...

Essentially a novel based on his life, it was translated into languages including Arabic and Persian — “every language in the ...

An expert on both the Macedonian and the Achaemenid (Persian) empires, and author of A short introduction: Alexander the Great, Briant bristles at the idea that Alexander achieved something that ...