"What's quite unique to Iran is that Iran retained its civilization and its language, while other languages made way for ...
A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.
The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...
Drawing on the rich history of 'multi-national' empires that had dominated the region since the third millennium BC, Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true ...
A multinational Nowruz remembrance was held at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Persepolis, bringing together ambassadors ...
TEHRAN - Recent heavy rainfall in Fars province led to the destruction of parts of historical houses in Shiraz, the ...
“If you speak of conquests, you have to speak about the Achaemenid Empire. The Persian king had conquered Persia 200 years earlier, so when Alexander came to conquer the Middle East he had to ...
Born in approximately 550BC, Atossa was the eldest daughter of Cyrus the Great, the founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the first Persian empire. She is acknowledged as a figure of considerable ...