From ancient pagans to the Islamic Republic: The shaping of Iranian civilization
"What's quite unique to Iran is that Iran retained its civilization and its language, while other languages made way for ...
Greek Reporter5d
How a Single Word Stopped a War Between Spartans and Macedonians
A historical anecdote explains why the Macedonians and Spartans never went to war when king Philip conquered all of Greece.
Greek Reporter9d
League of Corinth: The First Time All Greeks United
The League of Corinth was an initiative of King Philip II of Macedon to unite all Greek city-states against the Persian ...
Tehran Times9d
Ancient Achaemenid drains prevent water accumulation at Persepolis
TEHRAN - Recent heavy rainfall in Fars province led to the destruction of parts of historical houses in Shiraz, the ...
PBS8y
The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
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 ...
Tehran Times1d
UNESCO-listed Nowruz celebrated at Persepolis with Central Asian diplomats
A multinational Nowruz remembrance was held at the UNESCO World Heritage site of Persepolis, bringing together ambassadors ...
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How Alexander the Great redrew the map of the world
“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 ...