"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.
A multinational Nowruz remembrance was held at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Persepolis, bringing together ambassadors ...
The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...
The rich capitals of the Achaemenid Empire lay exposed to a foreign invader for the first time. Yet, there were those who ...
TEHRAN - Recent heavy rainfall in Fars province led to the destruction of parts of historical houses in Shiraz, the ...
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 ...
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 ...