The Ancients host Tristan Hughes and ancient historian Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones debate some wild theories about Ancient Persia.

One of the most memorable images by Greek historian Herodotus depicts Persian King Xerxes ordering the sea to be punished ...

Machine generated contents note: 2.1. The Persians -- 2.1.1. Parsua and Parsumash -- 2.1.2. Kurash of Parsumash -- 2.2. The Indigenous Population of the Iranian Plateau: The Elamites -- 2.3. The ...

BC. The Persian Achaemenid Empire, established half a century earlier under Cyrus the Great, stretched from Northern India to Southeast Europe. The Achaemenid Empire controlled a vast area with ...

The University of Chicago's Oriental Institute is returning a set of 300 ancient Iranian tablets, documents that provide details of the inner workings of the administration of the ancient Persian ...

In Western history, Persians are exotic and malevolent “Others.” The fantasy film 300 (2006) is an extreme example. For many modern Americans, Persians are the Bad Guys. The first great Persian empire ...

The name of this place means “the town or city of Judah,” and it belonged to the Babylonian Empire. Its existence is known ...