A study of Persia’s Royal Highway uncovers how the Achaemenids built roads to support the empire's royal machinery across ...

The Achaemenid Empire rose from a small Persian kingdom to the largest empire the ancient world had ever seen. Through ...

The department introduced language courses and coursework in Persian literature, cinema, art, history and cultural studies as ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to ...

New research uncovers how ancient tides shaped the rise of Sumer. A newly released study questions established beliefs about how urban civilization first emerged in ancient Mesopotamia, proposing that ...

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 ...

For this reason, Cyrus became (and remains) a legendary figure in Jewish history, though he was not Jewish himself. He was more likely a devotee of Zoroastrianism, which was fervently embraced by his ...

Rear Adm. Ali Shamkhani oversaw a brutal crackdown on women, but traditional notions of Islamic morality were little on ...

Empires rise and fall, maps evolve, but borders often endure beyond the ambitions that created them. The Durand Line, ...

The region is called the Holy Land not because of its relationship to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam but as a place of ...