At school, Sommer planned to specialize in sciences, but one day his history teacher showed pupils a map of Alexander ... conquer the Persian Empire. “You can’t speak of Alexander alone ...

created one of the ancient world's largest and most powerful empires that flourished from 550 B.C. to 330 B.C. At its height, the Persian Empire, also known as the Achaemenid Empire, stretched ...

For more than four centuries the Sassanians dominated western Asia, expanding their empire and gaining lands ... was originally established by the ancient Persian kings, and lies near Persepolis ...